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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
Depends. If a player deliberately takes penalties intended to hurt or injure another player, he absolutely should be ejected at some point, otherwise he will not get the message. This slash looked awful and not a single bit unintentional.
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Slashes are a bad part of the game but they happen in every game and the NHL simply never hands out 5 and a game for them like the hits from behind on the boards. If Subban was out there running guys from behind sure you take him out before he injures someone's brain but this ejection thing for slashing is a little over the top unless it's a new league mandate and they are going to be consistent calling hard slashes as majors and misconducts. The fact that this never happens and it happened to Subban of all players kind of falls into the hands of the conspiracy theorists that think there is prejudice against him. This isn't my opinion of course but it certainly fuels that fire.