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Originally Posted by ninty

It was a dirty hit. MSG guys don't know wtf their talking about. Should have been a boarding penalty, and suspension for the guy who hit Simon. This isn't to excuse what Simon did. He should be suspended as well, but if you take out the dirty hits from the game by actually calling penalty and suspending people for taking liberties with players, players would be more afraid to hit dirty.

wrong...
simon was in the motion of turning perpendicular to hollweig just before the hit was made when simon suddenly turned towards the boards to avoid the hit. there was nothing hollweig could do... if simon hadnt made that sudden change of face, it would have been shoulder to shoulder and right next the the boards... hence no penalty was called. sure, one *could* have been called based on the result, but a good ref would see the circumstances, i got knocked and got a concusion out a few years ago doing the same thing, no call was made, rightfully so even though the hit on me looked vicious.

i figured you hockey watching guys would know more about the game than that the_finger: