This is the age-old question where the National Hockey League is concerned...
A player lowers his head, an opposing player seeing an opening, lowers the boom...
This happened Saturday night in the Carolina/New York Islanders game. The Canes Brandon Sutter was skating into the Islanders zone with his eye on the puck. The Isles Doug Weight absolutely destroys Sutter with a shot to the upper body. Sutter goes unconscious and all hell breaks lose...
No surprises there...
But the hit was considered "clean" by NHL standards...
Here is the hit... thanks to FS Carolinas and the youtube...
TSN's Bob McKenzie raises the standard questions in black...
Remember, this isn't the first time the Canes have had heavy-check aftermath.
From the McKenzie piece... the key paragraph...
"The league should at least stop saying it's concerned with hits to the head, because it's not," Rutherford told TSN.ca. "I've had four players - Erik Cole, Trevor Letowski, Matt Cullen and now Brandon Sutter - get badly injured on hits to the head and only one of the guys who hit them was suspended. So don't tell me the league is concerned about hits to the head because it's not."
Sutter remains in a Long Island hospital under observation...
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