Solution: Lucic's Hit on Miller

You know, there's a big deal being made about Milan Lucic's hit on Ryan Miller from November 12, 2011.  It's up for debate from fans whether the goalie should be fair game if they come that far out of the crease... but the rules state that goalies shouldn't be hit.

Should Miller have been run down?  He was only trying to get the puck and make the save.

I think Roberto Luongo summed it up best during last year's Stanley Cup final when he said, saves are easy to make if you just stay in the paint.

Watch it for yourself.



So the NHL General Managers and owners are calling for more accountability against players who attack goalies.  It's hard to say if it will ever happen though.

They're overlooking the most obvious solution:

Remove their goalie's bones and replace them with something very hard like pewter or marble.  Then they can't be knocked down.  And nobody would even think of crashing into them.

It would also be one step closer to making real hockey like that classic Blades Of Steel game.  Watch what happens when someone crashes the goalie here:



Of course, if the NHL would just put the "2-line pass" rule back into effect then players wouldn't be going about a hundred and twenty miles per hour.  Is it just a coincidence that the amount of  career ending concussions have happened since the exclusion of the "2-line pass" rule?  That's a debate for another day.