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Originally posted by rgaudreau
I couldn't see myself handing out a flagrant for fighting. No punches were thrown. It was a push.... hard and deliberate. He was trying to move the defender out of the way.
Ren
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This sounds like an intentional to me. I have seen a couple of times where the foul was just a good solid push with two hands, but for no reason at all. in both cases, it was retaliation for a previous situation. The first one of these I saw I called flagrant. The kid clearly stepped two steps sideways out of his path and shoved the other kid for no reason having to do with the present play. It was clearly flagrant to me. Although the kid's coach didn't agree. The second one looked the same to me, but I wasn't calling that game, just watching. I would have called it flagrant again, although the ref who was working didn't.
But in your case, it had to do with the play, so call it intentional for "excessive contact."