from Adrian Dater of BSN Denver,

The black box that is the NHL’s reasoning for all things “Player Safety” continues to be a study in unaccountability and unfathomability.

By now, Avalanche fans have seen the video of the Gabe Landeskog cross-check to the side of poor, innocent Matthew Tkachuk, the one that was deemed dastardly enough to warrant a four-game suspension. A cross-check to a guy’s head is a serious matter, according to the Kangaroo Court that is the NHL’s Department of Player Safety, so Landeskog’s punishment was just and right and should serve as a deterrent to others from doing the same thing....

The Avalanche needed all the big, talented players it could get against a very good, big, young and fast Devils team. Landeskog was just the kind of guy they needed in what finished a 2-1 Avs loss.

They didn’t have him, though, and they won’t Sunday against Dallas, either, or Tuesday against Buffalo. But that’s OK, though, because what Landeskog did was truly heinous and no doubt it has sent an unmistakable signal to the rest of that league that such actions will not…go…unpunished and that nobody is above the law.

Nobody.

more and Dater wants you to look at the recent Patrik Kane cross-check as a comparison...