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Wow. I know they've been heavily factoring in injury when making a decision on subsequent discipline. But in my opinion, a suspendable action should be a suspendable regardless of the player's history and the injury sustained. The length of the suspension should be impacted by those factors, but when a dangerously reckless knee-on-knee hit takes place, it shouldn't just be shrugged off because there wasn't a severe injury (especially when using the pocket change-fine system currently in place under the CBA). I like McQuaid, and don't think he's a dirty player, but this was a really dangerous play and should have gotten at least a game or two. Foligno could just have easily ended up on the shelf like Booth did courtesy of Porter. Just because Foligno got lucky shouldn't completely absolve McQuaid here.
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Steve Webb for Commissioner.
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