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Lucic spears DeKeyser, Perry spears Benn, Daley sits on Perry, Yahtzee

04/18/2014 at 11:22pm EDT

I guess the NHL's annual start-of-the-playoffs crackdown on horizontal stick fouls only counts regarding obstruction and interference, not spearing, stick-swinging or otherwise using one's stick as an instrument of torture.

As noted in the Wings-Bruins quick take, @myregularface showed Milan Lucic spearing Danny DeKeyser in the groin...

And during tonight's Ducks-Stars game, Corey Perry did this to Jamie Benn, per The Score and TSN...

And Perry's indiscretion yielded a response, per @PeteBlackburn:

Even Pierre McGuire was stunned by the Lucic non-call (per the Hockey News's Adam Proteau):

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