Bertuzzi Suspension

[DeeBye]

Assault (from behind, no less, and leading to a broken neck) is illegal and immoral, whether it happens on the ice or in an alleyway.

By this argument, a pitcher who throws a beanball at a batter should get criminally prosecuted; a football player who performs a tackle out of bounds should be criminally prosecuted; a basketball player who commits any sort of flagrant foul should be criminally prosecuted. I could go on, but I think you get my point.

Hockey is not the only sport in which players injure other players outside of the bounds of the rules, yet for some reason it's the only that gets people worked up enough to yell "criminal prosecution!". Vicious acts of violence occur in all sports, so let's have the police investigate each sports league.

I'm sure the legal system would love that. They don't have enough to deal with.

Look, if a player doesn't want to risk being punched in the head or whacked with a stick, maybe he should find another job. Playing any team sport invloves a certain amount of physical risk, and that's why they get paid $millions to do it.