Brutal hit by Chara

If you haven't seen this hit yet, it's ridiculous. The hit itself is nothing crazy, but the opposing player couldn't have had worse luck in terms of positioning:



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I can easily believe he didn't have any action against him. In his career he has never faced disciplinary action, and that hit was totally legal, maybe slightly late, but the man could not have had worse luck. It's like a player going into the doorframe of the bench, once in a blue moon it happens but its just bad, bad, bad luck

SSOK wrote: It makes me almost sad though, since this is a "brutal" hit. I miss hockey circa 1988 when defensemen would destroy the other team with hits. Although... I wasnt born in 1998

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Edited by choopie911 - 09 March 2011 at 10:28pm

choopie911 wrote: SSOK wrote: It makes me almost sad though, since this is a "brutal" hit. I miss hockey circa 1988 when defensemen would destroy the other team with hits. Although... I wasnt born in 1998   Keep up with hockey more?

Ridiculous.

"The NHL's decision not to further discipline Chara didn't sit well with Canadiens fans. Their calls flooded a police emergency call center in Montreal after the league's announcement Wednesday asking police to take action"

Why are fans so dumb? It wasn't even the hit. The guy just happened to hit the glass. I am surprised Pacioretty is saying it was a brutal hit even though he was the one that got injured. Oh and definitely not OMG BIAS BOSTON fan. I don't even like hockey that much.

That section of center ice glass for the 'media' has been a concern in the league for a long time. The section between the benches was open for years and there were no posts to hit. Center ice contact is routine, as checks are designed to slow the offensive flow out of thier zone. We have all seen players hit and go over the boards into the benches before, and the end posts along the blue lines at the end of the benches do not generally generate hits in the direction of the glass end posts. The media glass box should be the issue, not the 'illegal?' hit. Chara is considerably larger and taller than the majority of NHL players, and his height means his hits will be 'high'on the body.

In my playing days my height helped me considerably in 'riding' offensive players into the glass and pinning them with my elbow plastered on the glass in front of them, no way around and they slammed into my elbow not vice versa.

Hockey players have grown in size over the years, just as in football and the impact forces will get higher. I still remmember many a 'crunch' and loud pad thumps as I plowed a head down, puck watching, smaller and lighter foward, and it was part of the 'game' back then.

The hit was a penalty nothing more, nothing less, the position of the center ice glass box brings to question of player safety, not the hit itself.

oldsoldier wrote: That section of center ice glass for the 'media' has been a concern in the league for a long time. The section between the benches was open for years and there were no posts to hit. Center ice contact is routine, as checks are designed to slow the offensive flow out of thier zone. We have all seen players hit and go over the boards into the benches before, and the end posts along the blue lines at the end of the benches do not generally generate hits in the direction of the glass end posts. The media glass box should be the issue, not the 'illegal?' hit. Chara is considerably larger and taller than the majority of NHL players, and his height means his hits will be 'high'on the body. In my playing days my height helped me considerably in 'riding' offensive players into the glass and pinning them with my elbow plastered on the glass in front of them, no way around and they slammed into my elbow not vice versa. Hockey players have grown in size over the years, just as in football and the impact forces will get higher. I still remmember many a 'crunch' and loud pad thumps as I plowed a head down, puck watching, smaller and lighter foward, and it was part of the 'game' back then. The hit was a penalty nothing more, nothing less, the position of the center ice glass box brings to question of player safety, not the hit itself.

I didn't know you played hockey, very cool man. And I 100% agree, he's a tall man, did nothing wrong, and the victim was a horrible victim of circumstance.

I still disagree. The more and more it is analyzed frame by frame, the more people are drawing their own conclusions. In the context of the game, with Charas character and career, I don't believe there was any intent to do anything but check a player.

I'm not saying Chara tried to push the guy's nose through his skull or anything, but he's up high and went for a check that wasn't solid. There was no real point in even finishing it the way they were going. It wasn't a good check. Penalty, yes, but severe punishment? No.

Of course, we all know he'd be on a season-long suspension if he'd done that to Crosby.