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Opionions on Chris Neil hit on Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman
Posted Nov 6, 2009 by Erik Erlendsson
Updated Nov 6, 2009 at 05:15 PM
It’s been kind of slow on the interaction on this blog site lately (some of that is certainly because of me, and some from some of the changes we’ve made to the web site) but I hope this sparks some conversation. I want you to take a closer look at the hit Chris Neil put on Victor Hedman during Thursday’s game in Ottawa and tell me what you think. Take a fair and objectional view of the situation and take emotion out of the picture. Was this a clean hit? Was it dirty? Was it clean but unneccesary? Are we making too much of this?
Give me your take over the next couple of days because this will be a topic for my beat column that will run in Sunday’s paper, which will give you some of my thoughts on the matter.
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Por (mszelis) on November 06, 2009 (Suggest removal)
I don’t think it was ‘dirty’ but Neil certainly had no intention of going after the puck. My take: clean but unnecessary.
Suggest removalPor (Thierry) on November 09, 2009 (Suggest removal)
No worse than Öhlund on Kessel - the only differences:
Suggest removal- Neil’s hit was along the boards
- It was one of our guys take the hit
Por (GoLightningJN) on November 09, 2009 (Suggest removal)
From a rule standpoint I thought it was a clean hit, I thought Neil’s elbow seemed to hit awfully high against someone 5 inches taller to think he wasn’t intentionally aiming high. What frustrated me is the retaliation shouldn’t have been to drop the gloves and get 17 in PIMs, but to place the same “clean” hit on him. Circle April 8 when Mr. Gutless Neil comes into our building.
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