Here's My Issue

Everyone talks about the monster hits lately, but only when there's an injury involved. If Booth gets up and walks away, are we talking about anything other than the kid needs to keep his head up?

So I was lookin' for my normal cop out post on a Monday of the weekend's biggest hits, naturally I came across this gem from Saturday's game between the Ducks and 'Yotes. Mike Brown levels Petr Prucha...from behind.



But have you heard anything about it? Is there any more prone position for injury than being hit while off balance from your back side? There was no penalty on the play, nor technically would there be. But if Prucha's face down on the ice for 20 minutes after, like say, Steve Moore, we'd have plenty to talk about, but he wasn't so it's skipped over by anyone not writing under a Phoenix banner.

Pansification? Maybe. But it's just another issue that needs discussed in this whole safety problem the NHL seems to be having lately.