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Make note of how sure they are.

I guarantee much of it is coming from “somewhere,” some headquarters of some league you may watch sometimes.

Meanwhile, these people are defending a lack of discipline by leaning on the fine details of NHL rule and regulations.

It’s bullshit, really. The same odd collection of rules and regulations which have led to a stunning variety of discipline for various hits which appear to be doled out without rhyme or reason.

Someone texted me that these people need to pull their head out of their collective asses as they delve into the minutiae of the technical legality of blindside hits.

And he was right.

Because if you don’t think there was a problem with that hit, you don’t care about player safety.

Like, at all.

If you’re arguing about principal points of contact and whether Kadri hit Daniel’s head after he grazed his shoulder first, or not at all, you have 100 per cent lost the plot.

It was a predatory, elevated, dangerous, brutal blindside hit, the kind the league should be anxious to rid itself of.

If you were to ask me, Daniel’s right shoulder opens up and Kadri hits him in the head. Does he hit something else first?

Should it matter?

No. Just look at it. Watch it. You know that it’s wrong.

The velocity with which he hits Daniel’s head pops off his helmet like a shaken champagne bottle cork.

How are they going to argue this happened without head contact?

Was it whiplash?

Ya, ok, it was whiplash.

“He has a history,” Henrik said of Kadri. “He plays over the edge. That’s when you have to pay, when you do something like this.