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I think he should've been suspended until the start of next year if they really wanted to make a point here. I don't know how you go from 20 games suspension to 7 games suspension for similar head shots as a repeat offender with "significant history", as he says in the video. It's really confusing in the video, because before they state what rule he broke, he says he "violently drove his head into the glass"... yet somehow it's still only boarding?
The NHL seems to be massive fans of players Tom Wilson and Brad Marchand who are some of the last remaining gap-bridgers from "old time hockey" and newer skill only hockey... while I like these two players myself when they are playing within the lines of the rules, unfortunately they just don't often enough where the League really should've stepped in here and made a bigger splash. I know Wilson was previously suspended 20 games once so this might seem a little hypocritical, but I feel these two players get off pretty easy in most cases, both from penalties in game, and the supplemental discipline. The NHL failed player safety here in my view.