The Dallas play-by-play explained it. The rule is high stick causing injury, and it's up to the ref if they believe that an injury would cause the loss of even one shift by a player. In this case they didn't, which was right because Pavelski was out there the first shift of the PP.
Usually blood means a player needs to be looked over by medical staff, meaning a loss of time and 4 minutes. Pavelski has an owie.
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