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Time To Eliminate The ‘Push’ Hits
by Paul on 11/24/09 at 08:12 PM ET
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from Darren Pang at HockeyChats,
Here’s where I would again like the NHL to look at, and conclude that a player cannot “extend his arms” and “Push” a player in an act that should only be a hit, contact with a shoulder,or side of body to another player.
When you have played the game and go into the corner, or are playing a puck along the boards, and an opposing player is coming at you, you know you are going to get hit. You are braced to “take a hit, to make a play” as they say.
The problem happens when there is no hit, no shoulder, but he is there. You release the puck, still no hit….and then there is the “push”. The unsuspecting extension of the arms, that catches almost every player off guard and more cases than not, ends up in injury.
It is more prevalent than ever. Young players grow up knowing now that it is a “good hockey hit”. It has more football-style hitting in it than it does hockey-style. It has been accepted. It has to be eliminated.
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