Compare it to the MacDonough hit to Marchment. I don't find them to be all that different and MacDonough wasn't suspended. also He was only penalized 2 minutes for roughing.They just showed this play again on Sportsnet. I don't know how anyone can believe there isn't a huge double standard in how the league looks at these incidents. Again, I see this as almost the exact same play as Kadri on Debrusk (suspended for the remainder of that series). Barzal gets nothing. Actually, in Barzal's case his target was taken out of the game, Debrusk never missed a shift.
Barzal was hit for 5 and the game. (Yes it was late in a at that point out of reach game. )
I'd love for this hit to be 2 games but to do that you are changing the rules from just a month ago.. Like I stated earlier it should be punished harder but start NEXT season.