Raffi Torres' 41-game suspension was the fifth or sixth of his career. Duncan Keith has now been suspended three times. And if Torres "lacks the intelligence", then I would say that Keith is a sociopath. The point of the comparison was not actually to compare them directly, but to state that it is time the NHL stops giving him the star player discount and starts handing out long term bans for his actions - exactly as the league was finally forced to do with Torres and Simon. Because history tells us that when a player like Duncan Keith has attempted to deliberately injure an opponent with targeted shots to the head on three separate occasions, there will be a fourth incident. And a fifth. And a sixth.
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