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Originally Posted by b0unce. [?]
When team1040 discussed this today, they mentioned what henrik thought about it.
"Every players knows where they are on the ice."
It's as simple as that. People are arguing that Chara didn't intentionally hit him there, but he had every chance to hit him earlier or wait after the divider in the boards and nudge him then. Chara playing at an elite level that he is, definitely knew what he was doing. Dirty.
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There's just one problem with this theory: it assumes that Pacioretty was a mannequin and just stood there like a ragdoll, allowing Chara to steer him wherever he wanted to.
What happens, though, if Chara aims to take Pacioretty into the glass, hits him at that angle, but Pacioretty either backs off or tries to aborb the hit, and they both hit the boards sooner than Chara intended? Or conversely, if Chara was aiming to flip him over the low boards into the bench, but Pacioretty tried to fight him off, changing the trajectory into the stanchion?
Just two of the most obvious (to me, anyway) "what-ifs" that can happen in a split second... both fully accept that Chara would know where he was on the ice, and knew exactly where he INTENDED to take Pacioretty... and things didn't go as expected.
And both are very strong arguments an arbitrator or PA lawyer could make if strong discipline were brought down.
There's no clear intent... and without intent, it's nothing more than an unfortunate accident.
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Originally Posted by platinum300
That's totally BS Chara didn't get suspended. Looking at the Youtube video and screen capture a few pages back, it looks to me like a head shot. I thought the NHL is cracking down on head shots.
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I don't hear anyone else saying "head shot"... including people who actually know something about hockey.