So the hockey week in which thousands of words were spent arguing the merits of increasing the size of nets ended with absolute silence about the insanity of NHL rules that codify blind-side hits on players immediately after they release the puck on a shot, and therefore are defenseless to ward off a check.
Brilliant!
Gabriel Landeskog arrived with dangerous speed and malice aforethought when he took out Brad Marchand in Boston on Thursday, the Avalanche captain racing across the ice on a diagonal route to take out the nefarious Bruins winger on his follow-through just above the left circle.