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NHL Remains Clueless

02/23/2013 at 9:40am EST

from Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,

The incompetence displayed by the alleged NHL leadership is so staggeringly routine, it leaves me in awe. How can one league remain so utterly clueless and still survive? This is the real miracle on ice.

In the latest piece of unique wisdom, the NHL reaffirmed that it’s OK to crush a defenseless player with a vicious shot to the head — as long as the hit doesn’t stem from a specific, targeted attempt to injure.

Despite countless studies that loudly sound the alarm over the danger of head trauma, the NHL thinks it’s OK for a player to attack the head of an opponent.

Blues rookie Vladimir Tarasenko, a budding star at 21, was flattened by a cheap shot delivered by Colorado’s Mark Olver in Wednesday’s game. The image of a bleeding and disoriented Tarasenko collapsed on the ice did nothing to nudge the NHL out of its hopelessly irresponsible Neanderthal mentality.

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