NHL Goalies are being taken out with an elbow to the head and it is a big black eye for the league

So right now NHL teams are looking at having a tough making the playoffs because of head hunting starting goalies which is quite a shame to see and it should not be happening at all as it is not a part of hockey.

First there is the whole Ryan Miller issue where even though he was not the usual Ryan Miller as he was 1 and 4 in his last 5 games where he gave up no less than 3 goals each game and only had one game where he had over a .900 save% the Sabres will be life and death to make the playoffs without Miller for a long stretch of time. Then when U look at Milan LUCIC head shot on Ryan Miller which took off Ryan Miller's mask off clean it looks like both parties are at fault for what happened as Ryan Miller was at the left side face off dot to try and get to the puck before Lucic and did but the reality is he was in no man's land and after clear the puck to the side boards just did not know what to do and was a target for a hit. On the other hand Milan Lucic did get a hit on Miller but it was an elbow to the head which is a move not to get an upper hand on him or even to shaken him up but the sole purpose of the elbow was to take him out for good and that is completely sickening to me because to go out of the way to pertinently injury a guy with no idea of when they will be back.

Also there is the issue of James Reimer getting clocked by Brian Gionta while still in his crease was a more clear black and white example of one player in the wrong and the other is a completely innocent bystander with Gionta taken clear advantage of getting an elbow to the head of James Reimer who was in his home. Brain Gionta took advantage of the situation because when he went across the crease Dion PHANEUF was battling with another Canadien player and they getting very close to the net and Gionta took advantage of what might of been Phaneuf slightly backing into Gionta at the end of the play. So now the Leafs have another rookie goalie named Ben SCRIVENS who is trying really hard to help the Leafs win games but then on the other hand U have the monster Jonas GUSTAVSSON is not a very strong net monster and is likely to heading back to Sweden sooner than later especially if the Leafs are now looking at bringing in Marty Turco who was close to have the monster backing him up in Dallas when he came over in 2009 from Sweden.

I would hope that these elbows to the head the NHL would have an automatic ejection from the game just like in the NFL if there is a hamlet to hamlet hit is an automatic 15 yard penalty as right now to teams are without their backbone out indiffidently and then the biggest star in the league Sidney Crosby has almost been out for a whole calender year because of a elbow to the head during an open ice hit.

Brendan Shannon this is your not challenge

Tom Mehegan