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Reddit was banning aggressively for anyone saying it might be murder and not an accident. Can’t even discuss it.
I have never once seen that play happen before. Things in the goal crease where guys falling to the ground - yes. I’ve never even seen a full kick like that before.
Hockey in the fairly recent past has had legit assault happen in their games. Things far past the gentleman fights etc. Or the planned some shit happened and now we are both sending out our 12th forward whose really a boxer to have a mid game boxing fight plays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Penguins–New_York_Islanders_brawl
That was probably the game I’ve seen that got most out of line. Hockeys a weird game where being on skates can get very dangerous and they always let the players themselves enforce standards with their fists.
Players are mostly trained to keep their skates on the ice as much as possible -- partly I guess for safety reasons, but also because when your skates aren't on the ice you are out of control and unlikely to be effective at anything.
I saw some other video of this same guy trying to bodycheck somebody and doing sort of the same thing -- throwing himself at the target and letting his legs come horizontal out behind him. It's not an effective way of throwing a check, and his coach should have told him to cut that out a long time ago -- but kids aren't allowed to bodycheck until they are teenagers anymore, and the guy is playing in fucking England where I guess maybe people don't know any better and think it looks exciting?
I'll buy that it's an accident, but it's one caused by shitty play -- high kicks when people are going in for a header might be kind of a footballing equivalent?
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