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Topic: Brutal hit by Chara

Posted By: choopie911
Subject: Brutal hit by Chara
Date Posted: 09 March 2011 at 8:41pm

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:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jimZ1tSdPY0&hd=1 - HD bigness

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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 09 March 2011 at 9:03pm

Brutal hit. I can't believe the NHL didn't even give Chara a slap on the wrist.

And of course, since Habs fans are, collectively insane, they are responding they way you'd expect them to be... by bringing down Montreal's 911 by calling to report Chara. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/montreal-cops-flooded-with-complaints-about-chara/article1935846/ - Link.

Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 09 March 2011 at 9:12pm

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

Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 09 March 2011 at 9:44pm

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 1988

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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 09 March 2011 at 10:27pm

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?

Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 10 March 2011 at 5:41am

I love ice hockey.

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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 10 March 2011 at 11:04am

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?

BTW, I didnt notice I put 1998 instead of 1988

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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 10 March 2011 at 3:46pm

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/10/montreal-cops-investigating-hockey-hit/?hpt=T2 - Cops are now investigating it .

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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 10 March 2011 at 4:43pm

Ridiculous.

"The NHL's decision not to further discipline Chara didn't sit well with Canadiens fans. Their calls http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/03/09/sp-canadiens-fans-police.html - 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.

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Que pasa?

Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 10 March 2011 at 5:46pm

If there is any police involvement in this hockey game it will ruin hockey.

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Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 11 March 2011 at 12:06pm

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.

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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 11 March 2011 at 6:15pm

I watched that show 24/7. Pretty interesting show. I would of loved to play hockey, but way to expensive to play in the desert. Phoenix,AZ

Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 12 March 2011 at 3:48am

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.

Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 10:15am

choopie911 wrote:

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 mean, it looks to me like it was a bit intentional....

Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 5:14pm

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.

Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 7:57pm

choopie911 wrote:

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.

Seriously, you can probably frame by frame so many things that happen and it will look as incriminating as that picture.

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Que pasa?

Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 8:02pm

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.

Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 1:04am

Dave Steckel hit Crosby in the winter classic, resulting in a concussion that has left him unable to play for the last 20 or so games and didn't receive any disciplinary action. I don't think he did it intentionally, but the Crosby Golden Boy argument doesn't stand here.

Chara isn't what I'd call a dirty player either, but he is a tall guy, and he made a bad hit on the guy. In yet another season where head injuries are being looked at, after a lot of concussion injuries in the NHL, that is not a good hit to take. That's why I said I wouldn't have been surprised to see Chara sit a few games. Had that hit been delivered by someone with a record, perhaps even Pens winger Matt Cooke, and the league would have come down on him with pitchforks.