The opportunities to injure an opponent in hockey are astronomically higher than any other sport.
There is no other sport where you have 2 teams moving at these types of speed carrying a potential weapon in their hands so you really can't compare it to any other sport.
My solution is to have off-ice officials who can review plays and assess penalties in-game. It would have to be after a whistle that the penalty is assessed but it would be better than the current systems at curtailing tempers on-ice.
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