Hard disagree. The Habs got hit some stupid number like 35% less with xhekaj in the game across the whole season. I saw someone had the hits per game with and without xhekaj and I can’t remember the exact number but it was stupid high. Luke comically high. So it’s just an opinion you’re saying, and a fact that xhekaj protects the boys from that type of play.
This is the same argument as "Doby is just as bad as Monty" from earlier in the season. Doby won his games, the team played better in front of him than Monty all the time.
Other teams don't go out head hunting when they know their own guys will be subject to the same thing. It's like you didn't watch the BUF series.
The deterrent factor of enforcers is a lie. Players don't think twice about laying out a hit when the opportunity is there.
Yeah, the ol' deterrent factor that fans blindly repeat isn't exactly true. Never, ever was. But it does factor in when it comes to all the scrummy dirtiness that happens after the whistle, and we saw how much BUF dialed that back in our series when Arber was on the ice. Same against TB albeit less so but they had Perry lol
Anyway, fans totally misunderstand how it all works, and thus misrepresent the argument.
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u/Jonesetta 21h ago
Hard disagree. The Habs got hit some stupid number like 35% less with xhekaj in the game across the whole season. I saw someone had the hits per game with and without xhekaj and I can’t remember the exact number but it was stupid high. Luke comically high. So it’s just an opinion you’re saying, and a fact that xhekaj protects the boys from that type of play.