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Originally Posted by Saqe
This is not a civil case where someone is caught on tape hurting another person. This happens in a hockey game where people regularly slash, whack and tackle other players.
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All of which are against the rules – slashing, roughing, holding. The fact that the idiot referees don't call the rules as written is no defence in any particular instance.
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By your logic these all should be judged as intent to injure which they aren't- they are penalized by penalties such as slashing or roughing.
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Nonsense. The difference, as innumerable people have pointed out, is that Pettersson was already out of the play and the puck was gone when Matheson knocked him off his pins. In football that would be penalized as unnecessary roughness. In hockey it should have been penalized as roughing.
I think a two-game suspension is excessive, but clearly the NHL agrees with me that Matheson showed specific intent to injure and it was not merely ‘a hockey play’.