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I hope they make head shots a major penalty and also force suspensions on players who injure others while committing a penalty. I thought they made headshots illegal after the Cooke/Savard incident last year but alas this is the NHL we’re talking about, they only made “intent” suspendable. That left Steckel (cheapshot on Crosby) & Chara (same on Patchieretty) free to injure because apparently they pass the high school popularity test.

I’m one of those who would not morn the loss of fighting and the retirement of the goon culture. Get rid of fighting and add no touch icing and I think the game would be better.

Eric Tangradi is still on IR after getting a cheap shot from an Islanders player Trevor Gillies.

After being thrown out of the game, he came back and stood at the open door and was yelling at Tangradi, while he was still down on the ice.

Gillies stats for the year - 33 games -1 goal - 0 assissts - 124 penalty minutes

Players like this should not be allowed to play.

I agree about the Steckel/Crosby incident, but I don't think there's any rule the NHL could possibly implement that would have resulted in disciplinary action in the Chara/Patchieretty incident. You can see that exact same type of play (a defending player riding an opponent up over the boards) played out dozens of times in any given season, and you rarely see even a minor penalty called on them, let alone follow-up disciplinary action. Even in Chara's case, the penalty called on the play (interference) is one of the most benign in all of hockey. If Patchieretty hadn't been injured on the play, there wouldn't have even been a formal hearing by the NHL.

I’m one of those who would not morn the loss of fighting and the retirement of the goon culture. Get rid of fighting and add no touch icing and I think the game would be better.

The reality is that the "goon culture" has largely disappeared from hockey -- and a lot of serious hockey pundits believe that bringing it back (to a certain degree) might actually help reduce the frequency and severity of some of these incidents.