Those of us who love hockey have a love-hate relationship with the NHL. We love the game, but we hate the way the NHL runs it's business. Another example of their stupidity happened this week.
I didn't see the hit, but Sabres Defenceman Nathan Paetsch was given concussion by the elbow of career goon George Laracque. Laracque got a match penalty and a 3 game suspension from the league for the hit.
Here is what is wrong with this, and so many other intentionally dirty plays in the NHL: Paetsch is out indefinitely for being hit illegally, while Laracque will sit only 3 games. Does that seem fair to you? Not to me. Seems to me, if you take out a guy with a dirty hit, you shouldn't play until 3 games AFTER the victim returns to the ice ( If anyone know Todd Bertuzzi, please send him this). I assure you this would put a stop to this type of activity in a hurry. Goons know they can clobber a guy and put him out for the season, or forever in Bertuzzi's case, but their back on the ice in no time. But if a player knew that a dirty hit might end his career as well as his victims, he'd probably think twice (of course, whether Bertuzzi is in fact capable of thinking even once is in question).
That's all for now......I'm about to dash off an email to the NHL offices.
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