I guess it depends on what your definition of a 'clean hit' is.
If it's a normal part of the game, where 1 player just delivers a big hit to another player - then fine, it could be deemed a clean hit.
However, in this case - that f***tard jamie benn looked at Toews who was looking for the puck and noticed that his head was down so he decided to take 5 strides and targeted his HEAD. For me, that's a dirty hit that should have been penalized and WOULD have been penalized if that asshole wasn't blowing the refs in-between periods and whatever nefarious affiliation he has - and HAS ALWAYS HAD - with those morons in the player safety office that everyone seems to know about but just shrug and can't see a f***ing giant conflict of interest.
You can be certain of one thing : if any Avs player had done that very same thing - it would have been 5 and a game + a suspension. That's 1000% certain.
f*** YOU NHL - you'll never get another penny of my money.
I’ll undoubtedly get lambasted on here for this but whatever:
Clean is clean. There will always be players that hit to hurt and that’s ok, as long as it’s legal. Asking a physical player to remove big checks is akin to asking boxers not to hit in the head, it makes no sense.
The problem is we’ve taken alot of player awareness out of the game and they are being taught to turn into bad situations, become complacent, etc.
It sucks and I’d bet Benn wasn’t aiming to concuss him but he’s not throwing a hit to separate, he’s throwing a hit to scare toews into making mistakes in the future.
The two biggest problems imo are that the league doesn’t actually crack down hard enough when there
are bad hits, and players are way too complacent.