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Thin Air: Whatevs
Some hockey thoughts – – Whenever someone is hurt in the eye area, the visor debate rages again. And what I find funny is how outraged that people get, not over the visor issue, but that the issue comes up when there is an injury. Of course it does, that’s just how people work. Relax.…
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Two Sets of Eyes, Not Four
I keep hearing about how four sets of eyes missed the Torres check last night, but this is a misstatement. Two sets of eyes missed the play, and two had no influence on it. Like it or not, the job of the linesman is to call the lines, not penalties like this. Coming out of…
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How Not to Break Up a Fight
Last night, in Vancouver’s loss to the Minnesota Wild, linesman Darren Gibbs (and thanks to Puck Daddy for pointing out the name, and the videos) took a fist to the face while breaking up a fight between Cal Clutterbuck and Maxim Lapierre. Here is the Minnesota Wild video of the ‘head shot:’ It’s easy to…
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Player Tries to Drop Gloves with Ref
This is one of the reasons I hate all the ire that gets thrown at hockey officials. Sure, it’s all fun and games, until people start acting like maniacs, then it’s the refs job to clean things up. At an All American Hockey League game (yeah, I had never heard of them either) between the…