so you're denying malkin headshots?
- flyershockey
This really is the point of why players, coaches, GMs and fans get upset. Most, and I'll say 99% of the time, when a guy gets suspended like say Giroux, the outrage isn't necessarily because he got suspended, but more so why he did get suspended and someone else didn't. It's that picking and choosing that aggrevates us all.
Giroux's hit is a suspendable act right now, I think most people who separate themselves from the team and the player recognize this was pretty much the defintiion of what the league is clearly trying to take out of the game, but it comes down to why this guy or that guy wasn't suspended.
The one Malkin elbow on Simmonds as a King a couple years back was clearly a suspendable act and I still remember the explanation from Campbell was that he had never been suspended before therefore it wasn't a repeat offender. If that is the case then how does one ever get suspended? It was obvious it was a star player and whether it was the NHL collective or Campbell's decision alone, it just seemed like star player equals ratings so he can't miss games to me and pretty much everyone who wasn't a Penguins fan.
I think we'd all be happier if it was just a clear and apparent process where name's and teams weren't a factor. I thought Shanahan was that guy but I have to believe he's had his collar tightened and whether I as a fan think he should stand up and say my way or I'm gone is irrelevent because if not Shanahan, then who? Until the NHL takes this stuff seriously and consistently and does so as a united front, it'll continue to baffle us all.
