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Lightning vs. Red Wings [Game 7 Watch Thread]

For watching another Game 7, while feeling emotionally numb, we assume.

After years of avoiding the law, Niklas Kronwall finally got nabbed.

It's the first time in Kronwall's 11 NHL seasons he has been punished for a hit.

It's really, really surreal that after all this time watching him repeatedly launch himself into predatory, careless hits -- often with his trademark turning-his-back-into-the-hit that protects him but maximizes potential damage on his victim -- the NHL finally decided to punish him this time. You wonder if he's paying for an accumulation of other dangerous but unpunished hits during these playoffs.