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Aftershocks of Kronwall's hit on Havlat reaches East finals

By Scott Burnside

Saturday, May 23, 2009

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The reverberations of Niklas Kronwall's devastating hit on Martin Havlat reached across the Midwest to the South and the site of the Eastern Conference finals, highlighting the great dilemma the NHL faces in how to deal with such moments. In general, players from the Carolina Hurricanes and Pittsburgh Penguins believed Kronwall's hit, which resulted in a five-minute major and ejection from Game 3 of the Western Conference finals Friday night, was a good, clean hockey hit. Tha ...

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