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I agree with you on the suspension. It was an extremely late hit, but not from the blind side, as Doan actually skates in front Sexton and hits him from the front. He didnt leave his feet, he didn't raise an elbow, all around a clean hit except for the timing of it.
My question is, where the hell were the refs on this one. Regardless of being clean, it was way late and pretty damn obvious. Why was there no penalty called on the play? Just like the Cammelari incident with Niederreiter, the cross checking and slashing went on for a good 30 seconds or more before Cammelari finally slashes him in the ankle. All of this at center ice and not one ref thought it was a good idea to call a penalty before someone gets hurt. Cammelari slashed at the kids face prior to the ankle, and the refs just stood there and stared.
Not to mention the elbow to the face Franzen took from Fistric last week. Franzen had the puck, so some ref had to be looking at him, Fistric obviously throws an elbow into his jaw as he turns, and not only was there no suspension, there wasn't even a penalty called. Franzen laying on the iced dazed, the whole world sees the elbow, and nothing is done about it.
And its a big mystery why half the league is out with concusions right now. At least they have made it so nobody will ever tell someone to "suck a cock" ever again.
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