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Originally Posted by MizzouRah
They were talking about that today on the radio.. I like it. A guy is out for say, two months, so is the player who gave the illegal hit.
They also said, do away with the instigator penalty.. have the other teams tough guy take care of it without fear of an instigator penalty.
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I hate it for a lot of reasons.
1) I know it's this way in life, but I'm tired of the "you get punished based on the result of your actions, not your actions garbage" Let us say we have a game where the Seabrook hit happens, but then St. Louis decides to get cheap and hits Kane dirty driving him back into the boards. Kane gets lucky, he falls just perfect and ends up barely being hurt. Two actions that were the same thing and different suspensions.
2) It would be ridiculously easy for teams to play the system with that type of rule. In the Blues case, the guy is a critical player and will come back as quickly as possible. What happens if Seabrook hits a fourth line scrub and this rule was in place? You think the Blues are going to let that guy come back for the duration of the series? People usually respond the league could stop that, but could they? A guy says his head hurts and he's dizzy, do you think the NHL takes a chance on him coming back?
The fix for cheap hits is longer suspensions, regardless of how badly the guy is hurt. The fact he had never been suspended makes me believe this should have been a 5 gamer and not more. Instead, he gets 3. Too short.