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There’s a fair bit of irony in the fact that something of an uprising against the NHL’s Department of Player Safety has come as the result of a ruling that was actually a pretty fair one. But that’s what happens when you determine the length of suspensions by spinning The Wheel of Justice. Or at least it seems that way.
Evander Kane absolutely deserved a three-game suspension for his elbow to the head of Neal Pionk Friday night. As the suspension video aptly pointed out, “Kane raises his arm, extends his elbow and drives it with force into Pionk’s head, knocking Pionk to the ice.