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Reaping What You Sow: John Scott, Loui Eriksson, and the Pride of the NHL All-Star Game

So many people have written and written well about the John Scott fiasco, and with good reason. It's fascinating, it's charged with emotion, and it's about as controversial a maneuver by the league--sorry, by Arizona, Nashville and Montreal--since the last lockout.

Eriksson's loss in the summer of 2013 was by far the most painful part of the Seguin trade. To watch him then get knocked out with a predatory and needless hit just three months later was downright ghastly. John Scott would be suspended seven games for that hit, but you could still make a very good argument that he deserved more.