re: The Stanley Cup Final(s): Tampa Bay Lightning vs Chicago Blackhawks

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I hope they hurt Backstrom or Ovie pretty bad on Thursday. Retribution for taking out Visnovsky.

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Yes, Visnovsky is the equivalent to Ovechkin. When the series started, the Caps were thinking of ways to knock the immortal Visnovsky out of it. And it's not like Okposo knocked Fehr out of the series with a dirty hit... oh, wait. That's exactly what he did.

Payback is a bitch. It looks like this. By the way: puck is at the player's feet, the hit is head on, and the chest is the point of contact. That's a clean hit. It got a penalty due to Wilson's rep and maybe because, wow, he got blown the hell up. But textbook, that's not illegal, though I don't really have a problem with the penalty just for the sheer ferocity of the hit. But by the text of the rule, it's legal.