This is a garbage suspension. A few games would've been fine, but this is a knee jerk reaction to social media crying by people who don't look at the entire context of what happened. This was not a malicious deliberate attack on an official.
The NHL is incompetent.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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