Baby Got Backes
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Players are so much bigger and faster than they were in the old days. The consequence of hitting someone is more drastic. It seems like the league is trying to cut the baby in half. It has it's agenda that it mandates but then it has ex players dolling out punishment. It's kind of dumb really. What they really need to do is make the consequences for dangerous hits so severe that they won't do it. And this shouldn't be administered by ex players with their own era specific biases. It's kind of incongruent.
The injuries are too much more frequent and severe to default to the old days.
I think you may have misunderstood my point...
Yes players are bigger and faster so the hits are harder and I agree that punishments for this type of thing are not as severe as they need to be and they probably should not have guys like Shanahan making those decisions (not that he will be anymore).
I was not saying that everytime a player gets injured a teammate should go out for blood. I was saying if a player makes a dirty play he needs to be held accountable for those actions and back up his ability to make them. Player size and speed do not factor in to that at all. Take Duncan Keith for example, he took several liberties with his stick last night and no one, not even the officials held him accountable. And if someone like, say, Reaves, would have tried Kieth would have avoided that confrontation or Bolig or someone would have stepped in. All I am is if players knew that tougher guys were going to take care of their teammates (and were allowed to, stupid instigator bull crap) there would probably be less crap like that going on.