The NHL cracks down on Raffi Torres but will it change long-term

So with the 25-game suspension to Raffi Torres the NHL is trying to get tough on player's safety but is it actually as suspending a guy for 25-games who has been in trouble for years and not gotten the point is the easy way out. Torres if he not left his feet in the open ice collision he would of not been suspended and actually did not get punished for taken out Marian Hossa and having Hossa stretchered off and not playing game 4 or 5 and has given the Coyotes knock off the Blackhawks without the Hawks having one of their talent goal scorers in the lineup and is likely not playing game 6 in Chicago which is a must win still down 3-2.

The real question will be what happens next if a talented player loses his mind like Shea Weber did in the Predator's series win against the Red Wings when he throw Henrik Zetterberg into the glass and got 25,000 dollar fine because next time will Brandon Shanahan take the punishment seriously and worry about how it will effect the punishing team. This because in more recent history the team with the player that did the crime ended up coming out on the better end of the deal like when Duncan Keith concussed Daniel Sedin who was sidelined til game 4 of the Kings/Canucks series when the Kings were up 3-0 in the series while Duncan Keith was back for the beginning of the playoffs.

It looks like the Brandon Shanahan looks more at what the condition the injured player is than the actually seriousness of the incident and the seriousness of a suspension should be more effected by the actually incident and not care how it effects the team that the punished player plays for because they should be at a disadvantage for their player doing something stupid.

In the end I do not think that the NHL or Shannahan or both will be willing to take big part of a team long-term because they lost their mind or hit a guy in the head so the players will not take the punishment seriously. It will take the major lawsuits that the NFL is facing to crack down on plays that are not hockey plays but are still not being taken out of the game.

I wish the NHL would look out for the injured players

Tom Mehegan