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Where Is The Line?
by Paul on 12/11/08 at 11:45 AM ET
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from TSN,
Now it’s one thing when a hit is dirty, but even when it’s clean, the result is often the same - a fight breaks out. And that could be a reason why fighting is up 25 percent over last season’s rate.
Sometimes it’s just plain obvious that a hit is dirty and sometimes it’s not. But if a hit in a game is within the rules and the referee doesn’t call a foul, why is it that players sometimes do?
“I think years ago the line was a lot clearer,” Predators head coach Barry Trotz told Vancouver’s Team 1040 on Wednesday. “You look at the old vintage games on the hockey channel and if you crossed the line, you knew you crossed the line. I think the line has moved more and more, there’s bigger hits, there’s guys wearing shields and helmets, and all that protective gear and people are coming at each other. I don’t think people in junior know where the line is, I don’t think people in the AHL know where the line is, and it’s starting to get gray in the NHL.”
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