Ken Campbell's article on the Lucic suspension. Campbell also went after Jermaine Franklin on twitter yesterday. He clearly feels Lucic was in the wrong.
https://thehockeynews.com/news/artic...doing-it-again
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By any measure, the sucker punch Lucic delivered to Sherwood was vicious, unnecessary, over the top and potentially dangerous. It was hockey’s equivalent of taking a bazooka to a hornet’s nest.
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punching Sherwood with so much force that his head snapped back and he fell to the ice. (At which time Lucic tried to continue to mete out his own form of discipline by trying to get a couple more punches in.)
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Lucic is a menace at the best of times, and these are most definitely not the best of times. Lucic might be the unhappiest person making $5.25 million a year in the world. Along with anyone who has two eyes, he has likely come to the realization that the game has passed him by at breakneck speed and his contributions beyond anything physical are minimal. He’s watching the career he worked so hard to earn slip away from him and he’s probably not happy about it. He’s with a new team after a disastrous stint with his former team and he probably feel he needs to prove his worth. (Not to mention the fact that just seconds prior to the punch, Sherwood stripped him of the puck like he was nothing more than a minor annoyance, then went in and had a scoring chance.)
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