This is one element that I don't like about the NHL. Whenever
someone is hit with a nice crisp, hard, legal bone jarring check, there has to
be a fight. This doesn’t even appear to be that hard of a check. Whatever
happened to taking a number and hitting them later in the game? It’s called
taking the license plate of the truck that hit you. I think this is one instance where the
instigator penalty needs to be given out more. Don't get me wrong I like a good
fight. My nickname is goon.
Watch this hit, Los Angeles Kings forward Matt Frattin is making a shoulder-to-shoulder hit on Buffalo Sabres center Cody McCorrmick. If you watch the
video, it doesn't appear that Frattin hits McCormick in the head, he comes
close, but there doesn't appear to be any contact with the Buffalo center’s
head. We can debate this point if you want, but take a look at the video.
Mind you McCormick is no small guy at 6'2 224 pounds and Frattin
is the smallest of the three guys at 5'11 and 187 pound and he holds his own
against Tyler Myers who is 6'6" 194.
Maybe Myers is just mad because his team is 3-14? I don’t know.
