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Doan, Tippett discuss questionable hit

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Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan wasn’t exactly verbose when answering questions about his controversial boarding hit on Los Angeles Kings forward Trevor Lewis, but here’s his explanation via Sarah McLellan.

“He turns; he looks right at me,” Doan said. “I didn’t even look at him again. I was looking at the puck because I was trying to poke the puck free. He turns away as I’m coming in.”

Head coach Dave Tippett insisted that he’s not going to worry about discipline - for Doan, Martin Hanzal or anyone else - but instead the 2-0 deficit his team finds itself in. Still, he did have a take on the Doan hit.

"[It happened in] a dangerous place but a player can’t put himself in that position either,” Tippett said. “I’m not saying it was a good hit or a bad hit, but anybody who’s played the game when you’re in that position and a guy is beside you then he turns his back to you, you can’t stop. You can’t stop, and that’s what I saw with that hit.”

Ultimately, it all comes down to what Brendan Shanahan & Co. “saw” regarding that hit, though.