Brashear got suspended today, after his hit yesterday on Betts. 5 games for the hit (and an additional 1 game for some pushing during the warm-up). I personally didn't think it was that bad of a hit. To me it seemed like Betts dumped the puck in, turned around and then got smoked. Maybe he deserved a 1 game suspension, since it was borderline late, but I think they wanted to "send a message" to the rest of the teams in the playoffs that these kinds of things won't be tolerated.
However, as long as they have a double standard, this sort of message gets lost. Like when Cammalleri hit Havlat in the head, and didn't get suspended, but Carcillo did, for the exact same thing. Colin Campbell's reasoning was that Cammalleri wasn't a bully, so that's why he didn't get suspended. This shows that they're not suspending the act, but the name on the back of the jersey, which doesn't do anything to stop the act from happening.
Anyways, here's the hit......what do you guys think of it?
