Everyone in the room saw this hit and immediately was like "Oh damn!" He's not getting up from that!" Then literally, he wasn't. Good to see he was moving his hands right away though. Then they replayed the hit, and I was like holy crap..it's worse from that angle. It was so loud at my buddy's place and when we heard it, everyone was silent.
All I heard was my wife cry out..."GET THE CART!"
I am glad to hear he's okay.
As for the flag. Yes I agree, it was not intentional and he was not trying to give him a headshot. You can clearly see White was trying to get out of bounds, but got tripped up and it ended up being a head-to-head collision. However, because of this concussion review and how many concussion happened this season alone, I believe the mandate is any shot to the head, whether intentional or not, is going to be flagged and that I agree with. They started this this year in the World Juniors for hockey this year. They want headshots out for the game and it needs to stop. Too many players careers end too soon for that. I was reading in an article about a kid in North York, Ontario that hockey is becoming worse. A kid, 13 yrs old is done playing hockey after 4 concussions. All of which came from head shots. I think poor coaching is to blame.
