I feel like it's a knock on the league that teams have to send videos in to be reviewed. Should there not be someone on top of these things? especially when a guy goes down with a concussion, you're telling me the league won't even look at the hit unless instructed to by one of its teams.
In a situation where there is an incident that is penalized, either via double minor or major, I would assume the league would become aware of it by simply reviewing the summary of the game (I think they do this with every game). They then would likely review the game tape and speak to on ice officials to see if any suspension is warranted.
In a situation like this (Meireles) that went unpenalized, when the league reviews the summary, they’d have have no idea that anything happened as there would be no penalty listed. In that case, I see no issue with the opposing team making the league aware that there was an incident that should be looked at for supplementary discipline.
A couple years ago in the playoffs, we had the same thing happen to one of our players. Nate Schnarr gave Giovanni Vallati a flying elbow to the head and there was no penalty on the ice. When asked after the game in a post game interview if he would send a tape in the league, Jay Mckee said he would not because the series was over now and didn’t want to “stir the pot” so to speak. He said something to that effect.
IMO, that was the wrong answer because as far as I’m concerned, you have to have your player’s backs at all times. Just because the series is virtually over doesn’t mean it’s OK to dish out dangerous headshots to one of your players. We were lucky Vallati wasn’t seriously injured on the play.
As far as I’m concerned, Mckee was very weak in this incident. We would only hope to have a head coach do what the Erie coaching staff did after Friday’s game.
