Oh, there are plenty of angles of the video where you can see he very clearly lifted his elbow and shoulder to make contact with the head. Our guy didn't have the puck either so head down or head up, a hit was illegal.
So, last night's game was very strange. Playing the Caps. We go up 2-0, not looking bad, keeping one guy on Ovechkin on the power play so he can't even shoot. Then on a shot from far out, guy shoots and our goalie just misses. Totally should have stopped it. Then we scored to go up 3-1. Then a bit later the Caps shoot it around the boards to dump it in, goalie stops it behind the net but muffs it and it squirts in front of the net but luckily he gets his stick on it and shoves it to the board before it can cause issues. A little bit later, and this may sound familiar, the Caps shoot it around the boards to dump it in, goalie stops it behind the net but muffs it and it squirts in front of the net and Ovechkin is there and gets one of the easiest goals of his career.
That ended the first. Start the second, playing ok, one of our guys gets the puck behind the net, starts to skate it out but then decides to pass it up the middle. Not sure what it hit or if he just hit it off the end of his stick or something but instead of going straight it goes directly right, hits the goalie or his stick and rims up and into the net. We freaking scored on ourselves to tie the game. Are you serious? So, then we get a penalty a bit later, win the face off, push it behind the net, guy gets it and could rim it around the boards but decides to go up the middle of the ice. Hits a Caps player, bounces right in front of the net surprising everyone. Goalie makes the first save but the second gets through and now we are losing 4-3. That ended the second
Come out in the third and get another penalty about halfway through. We have done well on the penalty kill all night except for the previous goal. This time we are getting control and keeping them from getting any shots and keep clearing. One went right to the Caps goalie. He decides to push the pace and send it down to the guys on the blue line but sends it instead right to our guy who is behind the two forwards waiting for the puck and is now on a short handed break away and scores. We have tied it back up. With just over 2 minutes left, a defenseman shoots from the blueline, hits one of the Caps defenders fighting for position right in front of the net and bounces in. We hold on for the win.
What a strange strange game but sometimes you have to overcome stuff like that and win some games where somehow everything that can go wrong does and yet you still win against a good team to turn things around. Maybe they watched the video like I told them to but either way, hopefully this is the start of some changing.
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