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Originally Posted by Adam
Fair enough. I get that handchecking has a much lower standard for determining advantage. It's harder to tell, so the threshold is lower; that makes sense to me.
The problem, though, with calling them absolutes, is the same problem we get with attempts at "zero tolerance" (regardless of what we are refusing to tolerate). Remove discretion, and you get all sorts of unfair decisions: like this call (IMO, of course).
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We can never move away from some discretion on contact and fouls. There is always something to decide. I think all Adams wanted to do is to give us something rules and philosophy based to make these calls as opposed to passing like we would always do previous to his coming to the coordinator position.
Peace