I'm not sure silent_jay I thought Belak's swing was pretty brutal..although I only saw it a few times. Not nearly the coverage on that hit, than on Bertuzzi's.
I do so agree with you though about discipline. The league needs to be consistent. If they are now saying this is the new standard on hits and these will be the suspensions you get, then fine but don't change your suspensions just because it getting close to the playoffs.
The same thing goes for penalties in my mind. At the beginning of every year the league starts calling all sorts of obstruction penalties saying that it is the way they need to go to keep the flow of the game. By playoff time and into playoffs, 75% of those penalties are not called. This of course lets the weaker, clutch and grab teams have much better success in the playoffs.
Consistency is the key...
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