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Originally Posted by MR_BIGGS
The Torres hit on Seabrook was not a suspension because as Colin Campbell suggested:
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"When Rule 48 [Illegal Check to the Head] was unanimously adopted by the general managers in March 2010, there was no intention to make this type of shoulder hit to the head illegal,” Campbell stated. “In fact, at that time, we distributed a video to all players and teams that showed a similar hit on a defenseman by an attacking forward coming from the opposite direction behind the net and stated that this is a 'legal play
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What you are failing to realize is that they have this special provision for behind the net just to make that area akin to the open ice.
Which means the two hits take place in areas on the ice that are equally weighted in terms of allowing hits to the head.