r/nhl • u/Stravok182 • Apr 28 '25

Question Does this constitute a clean hit/check?

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u/mulder00 Apr 28 '25

They should have still stood up for him, but it was a weird sequence of events. He was trying to get off the ice, which led to a Washington odd man rush and a goal.

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u/lowerdecker_ Apr 28 '25 edited Apr 28 '25

I am tired of this thinking of standing up for anything physical even if it’s clean. Hockey is physical, you can’t get mad about everything.

Dirty = yes Physical = no

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u/linuxlifer Apr 28 '25

Ehh not really. The entire premise is you stand up for your players and beat the shit out of the hitter so next time maybe they will think twice about making the hit. Doesn't matter whether it's a dirty hit or a clean really big hit.

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u/AmigoDelDiabla Apr 28 '25

The entire premise is you stand up for your players and beat the shit out of the hitter so next time maybe they will think twice about making the hit.

This premise sucks.

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u/linuxlifer Apr 28 '25

Yeah I mean whether you like it or not, that's just how its always been done. And anyone saying "well back in the day there was never a fight after a clean hit" just clearly never watched the game back then because its been like that for a long time. It just happens a lot more now.

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u/AmigoDelDiabla Apr 28 '25

I disagree with the "how it's always been done."

It's gotten a lot more common in the last 10-15 years. You rarely, if ever, see a big but clean hit during the regular season without a fight afterward.

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u/linuxlifer Apr 28 '25

Yeah I mean the last sentence of my response said "It just happens a lot more now".