POV: GunnerThe charging call was garbage and everyone in the building knew it.Gunner had hit the guy clean. Feet on the ice, weight forward, the hit landing at contact rather than leading with a jump, which was the definition of a legal check and had been the definition of a legal check since before Gunner was old enough to understand what a legal check was. He'd been making this exact hit, with these exact mechanics, for four years in the NHL and however many years before that in every level of hockey beneath it, and not once had it been called charging, because it was not charging.Kevin Ash, number seventeen for the Ravens, had decided otherwise.He'd gone to the officials with the specific energy of a man who understood that drawing penalties was a skill and had been practicing it, pointing at Gunner with the righteous conviction of someone who had been genuinely wronged and not at all with the calculated performance of someone who was managing a situation. Gunner watched him do
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