I'm not sure what to think about the Patrick Kaleta suspension. It didn't surprise me, that a repeat offender would get suspended for such a hit. But the amount of hate the man is taking for if anything was a light shove is ridiculous. It bothers me that their is a double standard of being judged by what team you play for and how big your market is. Tyler Ennis took 2 hits from both Rick Nash and Dan Girardi, that were if judged by impact to the body or head, worse than the Richards hit. But because Dan Girardi plays in New York and Tyler Ennis isn't a "superstar" he only gets a boarding call. Perhaps Ennis should've laid strewn across the ice, giving an oscar worthy acting performance like Richards. The league continually decides its suspensions by market size and uses smaller markets as punching bags. And to give an idea of who the league is appeasing I saw some ranger fans on twitter saying its " the worst hit I've ever seen ". I have a hard time understanding that, if they had any knowledge of the games past they would know far darker events lurk in the NHL's recent past. Chara on Pacioretty, Cooke on Savard, Bertuzzi on Moore. Let's not forget this is the same game Scott Stevens played. I know it's one of your star players but have we forgotten what game were playing? You decide..
Remember the only suspension in any of these hits was Kaleta and it was 5 games.
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