How many games for pitchforking an opponent precariously close to his eye?
Detroit Red Wings forward Gustav Nyquist is about to find out.
And it says here the onus is on the NHL’s Department of Player Safety to be firm in its ruling on Nyquist, whose vicious-looking spear to the face of Minnesota Wild forward Jared Spurgeon Sunday afternoon needs to be addressed with a suitable suspension of multiple games.
Perhaps Wild coach Bruce Boudreau put the issue into the proper perspective when he noted, “two inches closer, the guy could have speared his eye out.