Just watched the play again on That's Hockey..
Letang clearly has his stick up, see's the player then chooses to drive the stick into his face/side of the head.
Letang was not being put off balance nor trying to get his hands up to protect himself, he smacked the incoming player in the side of the face for absolutely no reason and had a split second to even consider bring his stick down and bracing for a possible check, that wasn't immenant. He had enough time to not hit the Ranger in the face..
How the hell does the league not give him a game for that.
And for the record, I'm pulling for Pittsburgh in this series.
Just pisses me off as this kind of stuff is not taken seriously by the league, and what if that was a Flames player... Just disgusting..
The NHL needs to disband it's disciplinary board and reform it with people who actually know how to do their damn job.
So tired of the Bettman/Campbell era.. Can't end soon enough.
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