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Originally Posted by pylon
These suspensions are backwards.
Carcillo should get 2, Prust should get 20.
If someone grabs your shirt or jersey, and starts yanking on it in an aggressive way, sometimes it's just instinct to shove back, I could see myself doing it in the heat of the moment. The official wasn't hurt... give him a couple games and move on.
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Yet, in the thousands of instances of a ref/linesman grabbing a player to keep him under control in every year of hockey, only a handful of incidences like this have ever happened.
I agree with your argument that cheap, predatory, and clearly undisciplined hits (like Prust's) need to carry an equally stiff penalty...but I just can't brush what Carcillo did off as that inconsequential. You can't act aggressively towards an official, and you can't let the door to those actions open even the slightest.