"Brain Fall" – but Hedman punished for Bertov's misdirected tackle

There is a significant difference between these two incidents.

Weinstock is generally not a bad player, but the tactics he shares with Ted Brithén is exactly the one that needs to be eliminated from hockey if the sport and its practitioners really want to avoid head injuries.

It is in these situations that we can rightly speak of respect for each other, it is a tackle delimited from behind and which does not give to the one who receives it an opportunity to defend oneself in the world.

Weinstock's intention was certainly not to meet Brithén's head, but the intention does not play in this kind of tackle. Just make sure not to attack that angle.

That Marcus Weinstock himself immediately apologized to Brithén, was ashamed and talked about brain loss, talking a lot about the brother of the ear as a player and as a person, and that the punishment is perfectly justified.

Fortunately, Ted Brithén was not seriously injured.

The only thing I have to object to is that the assessments of the courtroom and, ultimately, the disciplinary council do not often result in similar clashes. In recent memory, Linköping Nick Sörensen tackled a tackle against Orebros Jere Sallinen with exactly the same risk and got two minutes for that game without a repeat.

Everyone, every late defender from a dangerous angle, should be punished as well. Without discretion.

But the offense of Anton Hedman is entirely different. Hedman stays still with the puck at the corner of the attack zone. Rögles Daniel Bertov enters, face and head up, thanks to the powers of Hedman, close to the elbow. Thanks to the fans for feeling feelings, but I wonder what the Discipline Committee believes Hedman should be doing instead of trying to receive.

"The tackle occurs with the movement of the arm directed towards the head", is called "key factor" in the judgment. I can not see but Anton Hedman is parrying, opposite. Bertov strikes his arm more than his arm meets Bertov.

This means that every person on the ice also has their own responsibility. I am very difficult to see Daniel Bertov as a victim of a situation that he causes himself, open-eyed, to come in and attack his head just above the waist.

And if you finally compare Hedman's "tackle" with Nick Sörensens in Sallinen, you'll see how camels swallow while the mosquito is sifted between the teeth.

I want more clarity on the issue of the responsibility of the tackler, and who is responsible for it.

For a grinding Örebro hockey, it is of course two very heavy breaks. Can be done without Hedman to Linköping, Luleå and Djurgården. Weinstock also misses the vicissitudes with Växjö and Timrå.