from Sam Kasan of PittsburghPenguins.com,

On the two hits:
I didn’t like them. You talk about headshots and dealing with them. That’s something that’s been a pretty big point of interest from GMs and players. When I look at those two hits (Steckel and Hedman), you talk about blindside, that’s a big word, unsuspecting player, there was no puck there on both of them. It was a direct hit to the head on both of them. If you go through the criteria I think they fit all those. I know it’s a fast game. I’ve been hit a thousand times. When you get hit like that, there’s nothing you can do. There’s no way to protect yourself. Those are things that hopefully they pay more attention to. It’s easy saying that being in this situation, but those are two hits, looking back, I can’t say I should have done something different or had my head down. I wouldn’t change anything.

On if he was surprised the league took no action on either hit:
On the Steckel one it’s tough. It’s really tough to decide if he meant to or didn’t mean to. I feel he could have gotten out of the way and avoided me. Whether he tried to hurt me, only he knows. We’ll never know that, but you still have to be responsible out there. I can carry my stick up around my head and say that I’m protecting myself. But I have to be responsible for whatever I do with my stick if I end up hi-sticking someone. It’s the same thing. In that situation, I don’t see anything. He sees me there. He sees the whole ice and he doesn’t avoid me. I don’t think that’s responsible on his part. Whether or not he tried to hurt me, only he knows that. He’s got to be the one to try to avoid me in that situation.

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