gb701
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Epsilon said:Just a point: everyone keeps mentioning the NHL. While I agree in general that the NHL needs to clean its act up, this incident did not occur in the NHL, and so it has basically nothing to do with them. If a player in the CHL or Europe hits his opponent with his stick, is that supposed to be some sort of wake up call to the NHL as well? Each of these leagues needs to deal with their own problems, but they also don't need to problems of the other leagues imposed upon them when they are a neutral party to the situation.
You are right...but given the relationship between the NHL/AHL/ECHL etc. as well as Junior Hockey, I think we have a tendency to lump North American Hockey in the same basket - certainly TSN did in the way they introduced the footage - this is "another black eye to the game of hockey". What is worse is that there is ready comparison to international and European hockey where for some bizarre reason the players just seem to be better able to control themselves (despite what may be worse stickwork - or maybe because of it if you believe some posters).
Anyway, I think that from top to bottom, the solution to this is to prevent players who choose to deliberately try to injure other players from playing the game again. There are lots of other players waiting to step up, and it would not take many out of the game at any level before everyone else would GROW UP.