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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I actually do agree with that for the most part - if you leave the crease to be a 3rd defenseman, then you're a 3rd defenseman.
That said, if Smith were a defenseman there instead of a goalie, that's probably still a boarding call. So I wouldn't have a problem with a boarding call there.
And Binnington leaves his crease all the time. Find anytime I've complained about Binnington getting run when he's behind the net playing the puck. I don't. I think it's a dangerous decision for a goalie to make and one of the very few ways for a team to deal with that offensively is to make that goalie reticent to leave the crease. Had he been hurt playing a dump in, it wouldn't have bothered me. Frankly I expected it for awhile.
But he wasn't. He was very obviously in his crease and Kadri, as his is custom, was playing out of control. And again, completely changed direction into him. But lets keep pretending like these guys don't know how to skate through contact in ways that DON'T involve leaving his feet and dead-legging into a goalies lap and through the back of the net.
Nazem Kadri - multiple time 30 goal scorer with the skill to be a point per game player, but evidently can't skate.
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He doesn’t go flying or turn his back there if he is expecting to get hit like a defender he should not have been surprised by the contact hell if he braces or reverse hit lucic there lucic probably goes flying , goalies think they are are untouchable everywhere, they set picks /slash guys behind the legs most of the game , in the paint fine but anywhere else you are a hockey player and should act and be treated accordingly.