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Originally Posted by MattyC
Why not just offer a 10 game suspension for ALL players that mindlessly attack others? It's not hard to figure out when a fight is completely unprovoked.
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Yeah, they are solving the wrong problem here. Suspend someone who beats up on an unwilling opponent? Yes. Suspend goalies simply for fighting? No.
And puckluck - I can't tell you how surprised I am to find you missed the point. And the point, simply, is that we can't use an extreme to judge something. Emery's actions were extreme - and the league fumbled the ball badly by not suspending Emery. (And despite the league's contention, there are rules that he could have been suspended under. Not the least of which is the Commissioner's authority to punish conduct detrimental to the sport.) But the existence of an extreme example does not make an argument.