Hey NHL…Get your freaking act together!!!

So here’s the spark that fired up the whole discussion; Alexander Ovechkin, gets a two game suspension as well as a $232,000 fine for his hit on Brian Campbell.  However, there are many different opinions on the severity of the suspension. The truth is that if Campbell hadn’t gotten hurt, there wouldn’t have been an issue to discuss in the first place, but because he did, many analysts are making a huge fuss about the hit. Also, many are comparing the hit to Maxim Lapierre’s hit on Scott Nichol. A lot of people are saying that it was a similar hit and that Ovechkin’s status in the NHL helped him get preferential treatment and thus only 2 games and a fine. Honestly, I personally do not think that both hits were at all similar; Lapierre’s hit was done purposely and immaturely by a cowardly player with a cheap-shot reputation. As for Ovechkin, he should have gotten a maximum of a 5 minute major and nothing more. But the major issue at hand is the NHL and its way of dealing with the hits issue. The NHL has no idea what it is doing when it comes to suspensions and this whole hitting issue. I mean look at what happened to Marc Savard; Matt Cook gets no suspension for purposely giving him a concussion and Ovechkin gets 2 games for a totally legal hit? This is complete BS. The NHL needs to get its act together! How can obvious hits with the intention to hurt be over looked and ignored and legal hits that are just part of the game be sanctioned at a ridiculous rate? How are we supposed to sell the sport when the league is partly responsible for making the players look like Barbarians?

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