I'm pleasantly surprised as I thought DOPS would stick him with a fine, or 1 game max based on all the factors leading to the hit. But Looch and Bieksa are right, there is responsibility on the hitter to avoid serious injury yet players need to protect themselves first and foremost because who knows what could happen? Especially in a game played at such high speed.
Bieksa called it well, if I see Looch coming at me like that I'm getting high on the boards so I just get smushed into the glass some instead of my head impacting the boards hard. Or, just sidestep entirely like Dumoulin or whoever it was last night.
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