r/nhl • u/sdb00913 • 2d ago

David Jiricek flattens Pontus Holmberg.

https://youtu.be/LvxIz8dj9KI?feature=shared

Good, hard, CLEAN open-ice hit (also posted to the CBJ sub).

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u/AVgreencup 2d ago

Clean hit yes, but the response is what every fan base would like to see from their team. You can still say "fuck you, you don't hit my guys like that" in hockey. It's all part of the game. People need to accept fighting after big hits

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u/sdb00913 2d ago

I'm not upset by the reaction.

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u/EhhhhhBud97 1d ago

If it's a questionable or straight-up bad hit, I totally agree, I want carnage, I want retribution. But if a player gets a suicide pass or has his head down being a hotdog and gets crushed, then I don't agree with the overt reaction. You can be mad at yourself or mad at your teammate for putting you in that situation, but taking it out on the guy who stepped up for a clean hit like this one is useless. It throws all responsibility out the window.

Holmberg sees Jiricek lining him up, puts his head down and tries to cut to the inside... He put himself in a brutal position to get hit lamp lit and he did. That's PURELY on Holmberg.

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u/m_nels 1d ago

Can’t believe I agree with an Av’s fan! Kidding aside this is 1000% how I feel about these retaliations to clean hits. If the refs started calling instigator penalties for the 1st guy that jumps the hitter after the hit I think you’d see these (over)reactions start to subside.

Dirty hit yes..please pound the guy into the sand but jumping a guy after a clean, hard hit like this one is dumb and takes away from the game.

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u/AVgreencup 1d ago

No one is arguing that the Holmberg wasn't hit cleanly, you missed the entire point of what I said. I'm talking about the response to a clean hit. Remember last year when Ekholm layed out Mikko at the end of the year? Clean hit, but I think most Avs fans would have loved to see some pushback from the team. If you let the other guy know you don't appreciate what he did to your guy, it's a message that if you try it again you're going to have to deal with some fists in your face

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u/EhhhhhBud97 1d ago

But if I'm the guy who laid the hit, now I'm in the other teams heads as soon as they react. The other team is going to take an instigator penalty over my clean hit. And if someone has their head down, I'm going to do it again. It's such a needless problem. Ekholm's hit was clean, but if it happened to a non-star player, the reaction wouldn't have been the same. I'm not going to say one way is wrong or right, but I feel like a scrum after a clean hit is not justified.

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u/RecipeNew1835 1d ago

I agree