"THIS IS HOCKEY!"
"THIS IS HOCKEY!"
I just went to look for a photo of JP Parise raising his stick to a Russian (or East German) ref in 1972. I read half a dozen brief items describing it as “swinging his stick” “nearly decapitaitmg” “almost taking the refs head off” his stick “coming within inches of his head”, etc. In 10 seconds you can find it on you tube, it wasn’t even close to this. He skated towards the ref, raised his stick threateningly, but never took a swing at him.