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Skookum Jim wrote on Thu, 28 November 2019 10:05



Plus Denver is at altitude didn't help any..



Ya, 5th game in 9 nights on the road. It's not shocking they didn't play well.

I'm in the minority, but I had no problem with the 5min call on Larsson. Pretty clearly targeted the head on a play that was dead. That's a play the league should be looking to eliminate, so every time they call a major on a play like that is a good thing imo.


He got his arms up on a 5'7 guy that cut toward him on the dead play as he's looking at his teammate on the ground. I doubt there was much intent at all there, just a defensive reaction. Was a massive sell job by that plug too. IMO, that's the kind of unfortunate play that a 2 min elbow penalty is for.


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Open to interpretation, I guess. I'm not sure how his height is relevant. This wasn't some guy that ran into Larsson's shoulder, Larsson actively elevated his elbow into the guy's chin. Defensive move on Larsson's part? Maybe. But it looked to me like if Larsson had done nothing, then any contact between the 2 of them would have been incidental at best.

Pure hypothetical, but if that had been a white jersey skating towards him, do you think Larsson's reaction would have been the same? I'm doubtful.


Avalanche plugs were running around all night trying take guys heads off, they lost benefit of the doubt, Larsson did the right thing to protect himself from a potential threat, guy wasn't stopping, skated right to Larsson.



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