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Tuesday’s game between the Kings and Coyotes went distinctly off the rails in overtime. It’s a byproduct of the high stakes and intensity and speed. Guys lose their tempers and it boils over after the whistle. We see scrums and jabs and slashes all the time and think much of it, but occasionally there’s a full speed hockey play that raises eyebrows.

In overtime, one whistle before Dustin Penner’s game winning goal, Dustin Brown caught Michal Rozsival coming across the blueline and made knee-on-knee contact. There was no penalty on the play despite the hit coming after an offside whistle being blown and Rozsival being carried off the ice.

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Killer flow, bro.

Competition tends to bring out the most extreme emotions we have, and those tend to be very, very volatile. Few things in said competition tend to make us go over the top than officiating we disagree with, be it hockey, basketball, football, baseball, soccer, we LOATHE a call that we disagree with and it makes us mad. This holds for players, coaches and fans and it is a rule — a law of nature. Being a referee is a job nobody should want.

We baseball fans saw a player go bonkers after a horrendous call or two when Brett Lawrie earned himself a four game seat in the stands for flipping out on Bill Miller.

From our friends at DJF

Not to be outdone, fellow youth and Toronto Blue Jays fan Drew Doughty showed off some of his “burning passion” for the game when he snapped after earning himself an interference penalty. An engineer would typically call Doughty’s enthusiasm for smashing his stick “stress testing.”
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We’re starting to distance ourselves a bit too much from the second round, so here’s the final best-of video: the 10 best hits from the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

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This Mike Smith slash may very well have been my favourite part of last night’s game, and I have nothing against Dustin Brown. It presented very little chance of causing real injury, plenty for real pain, and was just so, so old school (I did grow up watching Billy Smith, for context). While Brown definitely took his time getting up, how got a “diving” penalty (to go along with Smith’s slash) is beyond me.

Just look at the backswing he takes below. He doesn’t quite get it to parallel, as Tiger Woods would recommend, but he held his wrists from releasing until the last second, and had some good hip turn. Really great way to generate power. Fore!

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The Gate.

It’s no secret that part of the path to success in the NHL playoffs is not shooting yourself in the foot, as evidenced by every winning team, ever. A prolonged level of strong play is as much not beating yourself as it is scoring more goals than the team you’re playing and a key to that is not taking penalties or getting suspended.

Unfortunately for their Stanley Cup hopes, the Phoenix Coyotes forgot that part in their game two tilt with the Kings and let the wheels fall off the bus with undisciplined play. This was punctuated of course by two game misconducts by Shane Doan and Martin Hanzal for boarding calls.

Here are the hits:
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Busted.

Some bizarre things happen in hockey games, but few are more bizarre than the standards for skater-goaltender relations. It’s common to see the goaltenders have free reign over the ice, bringing about penalty calls on a whim with flops, hacks and the like. Calling a goaltender for slashing these days seems about as common as the two-line pass.

Equally bizarre in this sport is the double call of a trip, hook, dive or slash in addition to a diving call on the victim of the initial offense. HOW COULD IT BE BOTH? is a common phrase to hear in the living room of hockey fans across the world.

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With round three just under way, we thought it’d be a good time to reflect on round two, and re-watch the best goals that were scored.

The video is cut to a hockey-based music video by Saukrates, a rapper from Toronto. There’s even a brief “white Canadian guy rapping about hockey” cameo, and honestly (see also: surprisingly: it’s really good.

The top-10 goals from the Conference Semi-Finals:

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