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Keeler: Pointing fingers at Avalanche defenseman Devon Toews after Nikita Kucherov hit shows Jon Cooper, Tampa Bay Lightning aren’t just Stanley Cup champs. They’re gold-medal hypocrites.

If Devon Toews is dangerous, Corey Perry is malignant.

Or is it hockey etiquette, when a player is helplessly sprawled out on the ice, the way J.T. Compher was in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, to put your entire weight on the sprawled player’s leg, like the footstool at a library, while digging your knee into the sprawled player’s ankle?

“It’s one of those plays you don’t want to see,” Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman said of the hit by Toews, an Avalanche d-man, on Nikita Kucherov, a Tampa Bay forward, at the end of a 6-2 Bolts laugher in Game 3, setting up a critical Game 4 Stanley Cup Final showdown Wednesday at Amalie Arena.