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Old Mon May 07, 2012, 02:22pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by JetMetFan View Post
This was my thought on first look. It's a question of whether the screener caused contact or did the defender see the contact coming and try to avoid it. As far as I'm concerned it's the latter.
Yet, the screener came out even farther and created contact to ensure the defender was impeded by the screen. The screener moved out on purpose to create contact and did so and delayed the defender even more than they would have been delayed by simply going around the original screen. That is a textbook illegal screen.

Some plays deserve a whistle even though the offended party is not knocked on their butt.
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