More Needed When It Comes To The Head Shot Proposal

from Scott Burnside of ESPN, Here?s hoping the competition committee?which will assess the proposal at its next meeting in June and decide whether to send it to the board of governors for approval for next season?takes this proposal and puts some teeth into it. For example: If you are subject to supplementary discipline for violating this rule, the suspensions start at five games and go up for each transgression. Or 10 games. Or whatever the level of deterrent is that?s needed to stop people such as Matt Cooke or Mike Richards from leaving the trail of carnage they have left in just this season alone. It?s not that we don?t trust Campbell, the league?s top disciplinarian, to do the right thing. He could start handing out suspensions that will give this new rule some meaning and make it an agent of change in eliminating the kinds of sickening hits like Cooke?s, which may have cost Marc Savard of the Boston Bruins the rest of the NHL regular season. more

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