Enough With The Head Shots

Listening to The Fan Yesterday and on 3 different show (2 of them segments of Hockey Central) The talk was almost exclusively about head shots.  This time around because of another incident the night before.  It seems like it's a nightly occurance since the Marc Savard injury which mean's it's a daily discussion.  Sorry, but I'm fed up with it.  There are too many other interesting things going on in the NHL for this to be the only topic.

To his credit Doug Maclean said pretty much the same thing.  He's sick to death of it and he doesn't want to talk about it anymore.  New rules are going to be proposed to get rid of head shots but somewhere along the line one of the commentators said "the players wont go for it". Yea, they will.

When I first got my drivers lisence I told anyone who would listen that there was no way I was going to wear a seat belt.  It violated my rights.  Back then I was a...death to the military indsutrial complex...rage against the machine..don't trust anyone over 30...radical.  In high school I actually wrote an essay titled"Why Anarchy Can Work".  Society without rules or laws.  I still belive anarchy can work, if you're a hermit.  Add a second person and your anarchy turns into, well, it turns into anarchy. 

I was driving for a couple of months seat belt free and you know what happened.  I was ticketed.  Didn't bother me.  I was not going to cave into "the man".  I would not relent with my dissent.  A month later I was dinged again.

Being better at math than I was a civil disobedience I crunched the numbers and figured out that this is costing me alot of money.  I couldn't afford to be a rebel with cause anymore.  I buckled and buckled up and I've stayed that way ever since.

The latest head shot came the other night in the Anahiem-Chicago game.  The Ducks' James Wisniewski nailed the Hawks' Brent Seabrooke. Wisniewski has been dinged for an 8 game suspension.  That's 8 games without pay.  That's several hundred thousand dollars that wont be deposited into his bank account.  Explain that to the wife. 

If you hand out a 2 or a 5 minute penalty for something like this the players will never get it. Give them an 8 or 10 game suspension without pay you'll hit 'em where it hurts.  They'll get it and they'll quit it.. 

I wanted to be a rebel when I was kid.  Turned out I could afford to pay the price.  Guys like Wisniewski are going to find out pretty quickly that they can't either.