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Originally Posted by garce
I'm no Vancouver fan - can never forgive them for 1994 - but Horton was too busy admiring his pretty pass to realize he was going to get completely fucking murdered.
Oh, look! I made such a pretty pass! Maybe we'll score a goal! Go team go! I've got to get into position... SMASH!
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Yea, definitely Horton's fault lol. That's like blaming a guy for not looking before going through a green light and getting t-boned by some dick running the red light.
Players usually don't expect to get smashed through center ice a solid 10 feet after they've gotten rid of the puck. Should he have looked sooner? Yes. Should he have nearly had his head taken off because he didn't? No fucking way.
You want to enjoy head hunting, pop in a VHS of old school hockey and jerk off all night if you want, but in TODAY'S NHL that was a nasty hit.
I also don't give a fuck if you consider it a clean hit in every other decade. In other decades goalies didn't wear masks, players didn't weak helmets, goal posts were at the end zone, and baseball players didn't use gloves. Most people tend to learn from stupid decisions and correct them. Removing dirty hits like that is progression regardless how "purists" like it.
It's like those morons who try and compare football hits from the 70's to now when players are much bigger and stronger, yet our bodies are still just as fragile. Like in porn, the NHL always needs to adapt or die. If they continue to be dominated by the ulf samuelsson's instead of the Cam Neely's, a 70's VHS tape may be all you'd end up having to remember the NHL by. Only psychopaths go to games to watch dirty players like samuelsson.