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Originally Posted by btimbit
People need to stop watching the hit in slow motion or still frames and acting like Aulie had lots of time to look at Stajan and fully asses the situation. This happened at game speed.
Head contact in of itself is not against the rules. If they want it out of the game completely, then need to say so, not just pick and choose to occasionally over-enforce it.
Again, not saying it was a clean hit, way too early, but 2 games for that is an absolute joke. Especially after the Hansen-Wingels one last week was just a small fine. And the Despres-Smid one was nothing.
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Bottom line is the league needs to do their best to eliminate concussions. If you hit the guy in the head, you should get penalized and/or suspended. If that eliminates 10 big open ice checks a year because guys are worried about hitting the head.. then so be it.
Its in no one's interest to see guys being knocked out and stretchered off the ice due to head shots. Stajan got up in this case, but having a guy carted off the ice unconscious isn't good for the NHL.