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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
The Department of player safety is just laughable.
Had Shanahan still been in the room and that had happened to a Red Wing, Nurse would've gotten 10 games for it.
And things aren't much better now.
The NHL still just feels like a league that wants to be self-contained and make decisions based on their gut. There's just too much money involved for that shit these days.
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I don't know how the NHL could possibly be doing this shit and not be blatantly making a complete mockery of player safety.
If hiring a goon to make these decisions wasn't enough, how the hell could anyone in the front offices look at a suspension like this and think.... he won't do that again, huge win for player safety, LFG!
And I've seen people blame the NHLPA... they agree to the policy and if they don't care enough to demand long suspensions and so forth, then why should fans care. I'm sure some players care a lot more than others, then I'm sure there are trust issues with giving the league the green light to hand out lengthy and/or playoff suspensions and then it backfires after a bang-bang play.
....but I dunno, how hard is it to look at that cross check to the head while dude is on the ice and the play is over and say maybe we don't want that shit in the game.
