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The biggest reason I have for reverse hits not being called Interference, for hitting someone not the puck carrier, is that if the puck carrier is in a position to play a body then they're also in a position to be hit by whomever they're targetting. If you're in range and don't have the puck then you're already playing the body, or intend to. When driving if you rear end another vehicle, you're often still liable unless there's pretty clear cut evidence of some kind that the car that was hit was out of line. While I do think these reverse hits are getting out of hand, I think it's the approaching player who needs to be mindful of the position they put themselves in. "Damn, if he stops short I ain't ready for that." Just like "Damn, I can't cut that way because the defender with hands is there," or "Dude has 50 pounds on me I can't skate through that." Most of these are bad because the puck carrier often can't see what they're doing because the other player is directly behind them, on their ass. They might have a good idea, but they can't see when to pull the punch, so to speak. It's on the defender to not be in a position to be hit by the puck carrier this way. I have a hard time feeling much sympathy for players who put themselves where they can't be seen and the puck carrier hits them for it. Stop going there. Stop checking from behind, cut around their back and make them turn with you. Wear a cage and not this half visor shit so they can't clock your chin or nose. They have multiple other options to prevent these kinds of reverse hits than adding a rule to the game. How many more defenders have to take a shoulder or helmet to the face before they learn the lesson you ALWAYS learn when getting hit in hockey? Don't do that. Do it differently. That didn't work out. Leaving the ice should always, absolutely be charging. Number contact, especially after a race, should be called checking from behind way more. Charging into corners and boarding should be called way more. Crosschecking should be called more. Until the behavior requiring the calls is appropriately curbed.

I like how Jacob Trouba was the example as the outlier for penalties… Because I don’t think the refs even know what he is doing out there 😂😂

The simplest way to combat this (ducking/hip checking low) would be considered clipping, so I really don't know how anyone is expected to combat this short of putting on the brakes and hoping the player in front loses their balance... Which is kind of absurd.

In the intro, I was thinking “yes of course tanking works, how do you think Chicago got Bedard or Montreal got Slafkovsky?” Then when I saw the video of Nail Yakupov, I thought “oh crap that’s a good point” 💀

Was liking the vid more than I anticipated but then you ended with a semin call back. Now I love it. Respect the opinion I think the craziest shot I’ve seen in person was Sheldon Souray. RHD. And as a flyers fans, keep an eye on Owen Tippett and Tyson Foerster. Right handed, crazy releases

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Are you little pussys kidding me? This is from an undersized defenseman who played D1 in the early 90’s. 2 spinal fusions and 2 labrums later I say you’re wimps.

Excellent analysis! Better than some professional coverage!

The amount of delusional homer Canucks fans that thought the entire world was out to get them after the Petterson call was insane to see. Can't do that shit.

Bros using that title to bring in anti-white anything people. Well done

You can put an end to tanking by abolishing the draft but that will never happen

All illegal hopping off your skates is a penalty , this should be an automatic penalty

Tanking helps if you are friends with Bettman, like pens and chicago...

Thanks for including that Owen Nolan "pick the corner" shot at 17:19, from what I remember I watched that All Star game live and the reaction to that was 😮. Especially given the context, completing the hat trick in front of his home crowd. I had long forgotten about it, but seeing it again reminded me what a cool moment that was.

3:15 can’t you measure distance and time to get Hayes speed?

Great video! Love this kind of topic

8:30 But if he's left handed does that mean he has his non dominant hand on his goalie stick????

Sergachev..

Please keep this up, love this stuff

Im of the opinion that if someone is coming to check you, its fair game to check them back

Only if you do it for 10 years, get 4 first overalls and a third overall, and one of them happens to be mcdavid

This is honestly juat a bad video. The Pavel Datsyuk has nothing in common with the numbers hits you compare it to. Its a shoulder to the chest, even the commentators say it during the clip. This video is bunk

If you shoot the same side as your handedness you likely will have a harder shot and if your shoot is opposite your handedness there’s a higher chance of having better control. (Puck handling)

My armchair psychology would assume that a brighter color would be a lot more noticeable out of the corner of your eye. I feel like having red pads would work best.

Soo Chicago already tanked for Bedard but were they tanking again this year or just that’s the best of their ability? 2nd to last in the league with Bedard

Mika did a forsberg. This year

I was a goalie as a kid and shot right but used my catching mit on my left hand and my stick in my right

wow great vid

If tanking worked the sabers would have 7 cups

Penalty is not going to effectively reduce the danger of the reverse hits. The best way is for players to be aware. To add this to their self protection bag. Head on a swivel as they say in football.

Fascinating video

Great video man, but I gotta say the fact that you had pretty much 8 straight minutes of different reverse hits shows some dedication.

Why no mention of Alexi Kovalev #LGR

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I love to see someone made a video about this topic and great one as well 👍

We will never see a pad size increase again.

This is called knowing how to hit

I thini most people would agree that if you throw an elbow, a hit to the head or the like then it could be a penalty, but if it's a clean hit then move on.

If you don't want to get reverse hit, play the puck. Simple

Reverse hitting is a way to defend yourself from being hit, it's fair and needed... Bracing for a hit can have the same outcome

How do they not have the puck?

Even if they don't want to go back to the cartoon duck logo, they could use the current duck-foot D in matching colors with the old school diagonal graphic jerseys. Have the main-color-orange in the old school pattern as the alternate. The problem jersey is iconic for a reason. I grew up on the east coast and was Penguins fan until the Hurricanes moved in, but my first rec league team (first time playing properly organized and everyone in matching uniforms instead of "dark vs light" pickup games) was thr eggplant color original Mighty Ducks pattern jersey. I am still sad twenty five or so years later (holy crap i feel old writing that out) that I had to return it at the end of the season (jerseys got reused each year).

The first clip is of force-berg. "Okay im locked in now"

My nhl 24 be a pro defenseman is right handed and plays on the left side and he’s one of the greatest shooters so idkkkkkk

I always thought it would be great to have an All-Time All-Star game with Righties vs Lefties. The goalie would be decided with glove hand. If you go All-Time, it would be interesting...Gretzky, Crosby, McDavid (left) vs Ovechkin, Howe, Lemieux. Yeah, if I ever find a genie in a bottle, that's my first wish. Those guys, at their peak, in an actual game. (yeah, make a full lineup, of course, but those six are a good start!)

Defenders are not playing around the hit yet, they need to understand when the puck carrier knows they are there and brace for impact sooner to make it a 50/50 or better if you are hitting from behind

7:08 - that Hartman hit on Ehlers was one of the dirtiest hits I've ever seen in the NHL. I couldn't believe he only got one game for a clear intent to injure/end a career.

They're great and used to be considered just regular effort. Nowadays they're safer than regular hits, both from a penalty and a safety (as in, the hittee becomes the hitter) perspective. But we're not far at ll from these hits regularly being problematic and repeatedly concussing people, to say nothing of coming closer and closer to interference.

Great video. The ones with the players facing each other look far less dangerous. Most of these should be interference, or maybe they should update charging to a “launching” style roughing penalty.

If you can’t check a player from behind, that player shouldn’t be able to check the player behind him in the same manner