Gurglesons
Registered User
Again, what does this have to do with the utter stupidity of not calling all other cross checks of the exact same or even bigger severity which do not result from an injury? If it weren't for the unfortunate bump into Stasny there wouldn't have been an injury, most likely. As along the chance of not causing an injury and hence not being called is far higher than the opposite, players are going to keep rolling the dice and I can't really blame them.
The NHL has established they punish to injury.
Eakins optically crosschecked someone who was then unconscious on the ice and bleeding from his head.
If you’re going to get into the NHL doesn’t make the calls 90% of the time, that is fine. But, they SHOULD be making the calls and when they do and slightly screw it up, hard for me to complain when I’m an adamant supporter of call the dirty shit in the game. And what Eakin did was dirty and resulted in the Sharks captain being injured.