A recent demonstration of NHL infractions suspensions has most of us believing that either Brendan Shanahan either is told how many games to suspend violating players by NHL management or he goes to a Wheel and spins it to determine how long of a suspension he'd mete out. So some industrious guy with a lot of time on his hands came up with this:
After all deliberate intent doesn't mean a hill of beans in this league, regardless of contact or not. Edler gets 4 games for a phantom head-hit while a deliberate attempt by Joffrey Lupul to elbow Henrik Sedin who ducked out of the way doesn't warrant anything - the refs said "If no contact was made, then no penalty can be called." But au contraire, my dear blind zebra. Take a look at this video: (courtesy of Canuck friends from Legion of Blog TV)
Lupul impacts poor Nazem Kadri. I believe there was intent there. Should Lupul not be suspended for hitting Kadri? Intent to Injure Teammate?
With non-calls like this and the lack of an unsportsmanlike on Brad Marchand the day after, I would have to say the NHL Player Safety Commissioner is throwing darts blindfolded.
I figure this would have come out if Lupul had actually made contact with Henrik Sedin's head and ended up concussing him for the rest of the season.
Sounds about right.
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