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Versteeg's hit was wrong

By Jesse Rogers

Thursday, October 22, 2009

If Troy Murray or Eddie Olczyk or anyone associated with hockey reads this, I know he will vehemently disagree with what comes next: I don't like Kris Versteeg's retaliation penalty Wednesday night. Vancouver's Willie Mitchell hit Jonathan Toews cleanly. A clean hit does not deserve a dirty response. I use the word "dirty" because it was a penalty. A penalty that contributed to the Hawks' losing the game. Vancouver didn't score on that power play, but no one knew what was coming: two more pe ...

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