With the tragic incident with Adam Johnson, I saw so many people that are 100% certain that there’s no way you can “accidentally” have your legs go that high from a collision. Today, I saw a similar torpedo style result from a collision, when Cal Clutterbuck went to take the body, and held up at the last second, causing his feet to kick up upon contact.
Fortunately, no skaters were around, and it was a non-event.
But this is a good example of the torpedo effect that can happen from an innocent looking play. Yes, it is a bit different of a scenario and angle, but it’s still comparable.
What caused it here? I have a take on that. When players let up to avoid brutal knee on knee contact, the weight is taken off the legs, and they can be flipped. You even see it when players drive fill speed toward the net and try to avoid the goalie, they end up flipping over the goalie.
Can this type of result he avoided? In this case, I’m not sure what Clutterbuck should have done differently. He was going for a hit, and the puck carrier made a drop pass, so Clutterbuck aborted the hit, but was in line for a bad knee on knee collision if he didn’t take the weight off his left leg. And so he got launched. His legs went up. Would he be a “murderer” if it made fatal incidental contact?
by wewantthecup
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A better example is the Zednik incident. Zednik’s teammate is the one that hits the player against the boards, all of a sudden he’s flying through the air and cuts Zednik
The only video I’ve seen is a really bad angle I think.
It just does not make sense to me how that contact launched his skate that far up.
But its probably the terrible angle I saw.
You’ll struggle to find a single hockey fan in the UK who doesn’t think the incident was a complete freak accident.
As someone who was watching the game live, I have no doubts it was an unintentional, entirely accidental incident caused by a relatively high speed play which saw three players essentially collide with each other in different ways. There’s nothing Petgrave could have done. All of this talk about Petgrave being a ‘dirty’ player too, absolute bullshit. He’s no dirtier than any other typical hockey player. Great player, and a great person. Cannot begin to imagine how difficult things must be for him at the moment.