In my opinion, the NHL General Managers, Board of Governors, and dictator Gary Bettman are trying to put a seat-belt on the NHL. I am not saying that they should just let players go out there and do whatever they want, but I do think that rules are way to strict. There definitely should be rules regarding hits to the head in order to prevent concussions, but now it's like if you touch somebody's head you are penalized, and most of the time suspended. With all the new rules and insanity of Gary Bettman, it is only a matter of time before the NHL starts suspending helmets for making contact with a players head.
The NHL and its players have to understand that when you are playing a physical and fast game while wearing potentially lethal blades on your feet and with a hard rubber puck flying at speed up to 105.9mph, you have a high risk of injury. While you have players like notorious Pittsburgh agitator Matt Cooke, and Islanders wrestler Trevor Gilles (who would certainly not be in the NHL if not for the many injuries to the players of the Isles), who are out there head hunting and cheap-shotting, not every player in the NHL is trying to injure one another, and the NHL has to understand that.
When a collision occurs at a high speed between two players, they usually both have their arms and/or hands up to absorb the blow. Just because one player gets hit in the head, which could have happened just as easily to the other player, you shouldn't suspend the player whose hands made contact with the opposing players head. That same play happens dozens of times in that same game, and just because one player happened to have his head touched by another, that becomes a big deal in the league, most likely resulting in a suspension.
The NHL is not a children's league, stop treating it like one.
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