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Message: [QUOTE="brasssbonanzaa, post: 2881476, member: 794"] You're right that he shouldn't skate across the middle of the ice with his head down. That said, the hit was not clean in any capacity. He took multiple strides to accelerate into the check and left his feet - that's charging. He raised his stick across the body of the UConn player - that's cross-checking. He also made first contact with the UConn player's head - that's contact to the head and the onus is on the attacker to not make contact with the head. It's not a matter of playing soft, he could've easily made a clean body check there by not raising his stick, not accelerating and leaving his feet through the hit, and making first contact with the UConn player's shoulder or chest. He also blatantly disregarded the loose puck in front of him as he was going to make the check. [/QUOTE]