{"id":129,"date":"2011-06-08T02:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2015-04-05T15:33:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T20:33:24","slug":"a-hockey-post-what-does-the-nhl-really-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"A Hockey Post: What Does the NHL Really Hate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\">If you&#8217;re a hockey fan, you know that the NHL has been all up in arms the last year or so about certain hits. More and more players are suffering serious injuries, especially concussions. The final straw, apparently, came this past season when <\/span><a style=\"background-color: white;\" href=\"http:\/\/penguins.nhl.com\/club\/player.htm?id=8471675\" target=\"_blank\">St. Sid<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white;\"> was knocked out of the Penguins&#8217; lineup for several months by a concussion. The league had been dithering about bad hits for a while, but obviously the situation could no longer be tolerated and they really started cracking down.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\">There are a few things that they get upset about:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Blindside hits (where the player doesn&#8217;t see it coming and has no chance to protect himself)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Late hits (well after the target has passed the puck along to another player)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Hits targeting the head (where, for example, the elbow comes up)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Hits where the offender&#8217;s skates leave the ice (i.e., they jump into it to give it more oomph).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\">Now take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhl.com\/ice\/player.htm?id=8470310\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Rome<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhl.com\/ice\/player.htm?id=8470596\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Horton<\/a>, in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals last night. The one lying unconscious on the ice is Horton:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre style=\"color: black;\"><\/pre>\n<div style=\"clear: both; color: black; text-align: center;\"><object class=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" data-thumbnail-src=\"http:\/\/2.gvt0.com\/vi\/c4jnuOfDFXI\/0.jpg\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/c4jnuOfDFXI&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><embed width=\"320\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/c4jnuOfDFXI&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Guess how much trouble Rome is in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a hockey fan, you know that the NHL has been all up in arms the last year or so about certain hits. More and more players are suffering serious injuries, especially concussions. The final straw, apparently, came this past season when St. Sid was knocked out of the Penguins&#8217; lineup for several months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}