Dave Jackson

Would they still want a 10-game suspension or would they be saying five games is too much?

So I think it's really... It's a very slippery slope when you start suspending players based on the result.

Yes.

So high sticking only has three options.

You have a minor penalty, which is an accidental high stick.

You get a double minor, which is an accidental high stick that causes injury, draws blood.

And then there's no major.

It goes right to match.

So if they deem it not to be accidental, it must be an attempt to injure.

So you go straight to a match penalty.

For slashing, you do have the option of two, five, or a match.

They called it slashing because it was, I guess they deemed that he was maybe trying to get him in the chest area.

It went too high.

It was definitely a slashing motion.

But when it comes down to it, end of the day, it's really, it's semantics.

If they call five and a game misconduct, it doesn't mean that player safety is going to look at it any differently.

Player safety monitors every single game.

There's somebody in that room watching every game that goes on.

So if there's eight games going on, there's eight guys watching one hockey game, making notes and everything.

So nothing escapes player safety.