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Originally Posted by Not really racist!
An injured player on the ice (regardless of dirty/clean hit) SHOULD pretty much automatically equate some kind of response from the injured players' team.
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I see where you're coming from about standing up for your own teammates, but I'm not sure I can agree with a response regardless of clean/dirty hit. How many times have we seen players 'injured' to try and draw a penalty, only to pop up and play the next shift?
It's one thing to respect and stick up for your own teammates, but its also important to keep the integrity of the game. If your teammate gets destroyed cleanly because his head was down knowing that a big hitter is on the ice, the way to call that even is to make a clean hit back. Don't jump the guy, try to pick a fight, call him out for not fighting you, whatever, he's only doing his job (in this case Kronwall actually had a great scoring chance after the hit).
I don't think this hit was a targetted headshot, Kronwall was going to lay that hit anyways like he's done so many times. Just so happened Voracek was leading with his head and hit his shoulder head first.