That's fine. I think they should release it, because without that information the suspension length appears arbitrary. If it doesn't matter to them whether the public (or players) understand why or how they arrived at 27 games, then fine, that's up to them. But it seems to me that they'd want to be transparent about that if the goal, as it should be, is to discourage this sort of behaviour in the future.
I suspect it'll come out through the appeal process with the NHLPA anyway.
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