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NHL: Zedno Chara Hit on Max Pacioretty 3/8/11



Boston Bruin Zedno Chara hits Max Pacioretty of the Montreal Canadiens into the glass at center ice in a game between the Bruins and Canadiens on 3/8/11, Pacioretty had to be carried out on a stretcher.

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  1. Where has the respect of the opponents and the game gone? I really wish and hope that Max Pacioretty can play hockey again =[

  2. Yah that was just the wrong place at the wrong time. the hit was a bit late but nothing overly agresive towords him. fuck the police charges

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  4. I don't see an intent to injure. I see a much larger guy bumping into a smaller guy, and the smaller guy loses balance and goes into the stanchion instead of the glass & boards. The officials and the NHL made the right decisions.

  5. NHL: "Yes, yes…putting a perpendicular wall at the edge of the rink is dangerous to the players so…. uh… hmmm…. I know… let's put a thin bit of colored padding on these stanchions and then a broken neck isn't our responsibility….."

    Lawyer (arguing gross negligent design): "Dumbass"

    Judge: I find the NHL recognized the inherent danger in the design and is guilty of being grossly negligent of player's safety. Paralyzed plaintiff wins the multi-million dollar suit against the NHL.

  6. Chara absolutely knew what he was doing when he ran Pacioretty into the turnbuckle. He should have been suspended for a couple of games. That said the injury was Pacioretty's fault. NHL player have been running each other into the turnbuckle for nearly a century. It is only in the last decade where players don't even attempt to protect themselves in order to draw more severe penalties. The NHLPA needs to remind players this isn't soccer and playing like a moron could get you killed.

  7. @Kdavis9219 Chara is not a clean player, he is just not a loud mouth jerk. b/c the media likes him, he has a legion of apologists always blaming his size and not his actions. He is predatory and often viscious. He is just as likely to take a cheap shot as make a clean check, but he does make a lot of clean checks. I think Chara is a great d-man but he is a bit nasty. Normally that is a great trait in a D-man, but he does cross the line and with his strength can really hurt someone.

  8. Really, I dont blame this on either player, and amercians, I honestly dont hate you. im SURE chara wouldnt do that on purpose and also it was an accident. I am canadian and i am keepin my cool here, but amercians, CALM DOWN, I dont hate you, and i expect a lot of canadians dont hate you too, So dont call us pussies.Thumbs up this

  9. @mdsouza The NHL knows the design and placement of the plexiglass wall is a designed danger to the players. FYI, The NHL hasn't had these plexiglass wall at the edge of the rink for a century. They were installed when bench clearing brawls became the norm back in the late 70's.
    Toronto Sun: "The Canadiens have already changed the stanchion padding in favour of something thicker" so someone realizes the danger in inherent in the 'design'

  10. @teddiaustin there has always been a post/hard edge where the Plexiglass/glass/fence ended. There has never been a continuous enclosure around the ice. The fact that there is more is irrelevant and as you mentioned its been there since the late 70's, so these kids have grown up with them always being there. The reason players didn't get killed on these posts was because they protected themselves if they were stupid enough to try and squeeze through in the first place.

  11. @Kdavis9219 Todd Bertuzzi was a clean player and for the most part still is, but no one can excuse what he did to Moore. Pronger is noted as one of the dirtiest players because of the extra shots he takes at people and seems to get away with. For the most part Chara is clean, but he does take the extra shot or two and in this incident it was dangerous. It was the same on the Grabovski hit. The first hit was clean, the 2 forearm shivers to the back of his head after the hit was dirty.

  12. @mdsouza just because the current design is dangerous, doesn't mean it has to stay. The league's own rules (Section 1, 1.3) mandates safety glass extending above the boards, a minimum of 5' high, 'along both sides of the rink'.
    Just because an incontrovertible, inherent danger exists, apparently isn't good enough. The rinks ARE adding more PADDING, and that shows even THEY recognize their design is indeed dangerous.

  13. @mdsouza The 'extra shot or two', was all in the same momentum of taking a player out of the play, it's called 'finishing a check'. Chara's arm hits nothing other than Paciorrety's shoulder (momentum took Paciorrety's head past the boards. This type of body check, happens dozens of times each and every NHL game, but this time a 'post' got in the way of a normal body check. Being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, skating in the wrong direction, in a rink with a known design 'flaw'.

  14. @BlingBlingSnipa92 of course chara would do that! remember when the canadians won 3-2 in overtime and chara went over to subban but of course not gill… chara's a baby

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  16. I love how all Americans brag about their Stanley cup in Boston when more than half the team is Canadian.

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