Guerin

In the immediate aftermath of the Matt Cooke hit on Marc Savard, I was highly critical of the other players in the NHL, in particular Cooke’s teammates, who never seem to speak out about predatory hits unless it happens to them or someone on their teams.

Well, a couple veteran players have finally decided they’ve seen enough of their colleagues go down because of blatant attempts to injury by other players. In Edmonton, defenseman Sheldon Souray had some great points in a piece by Mark Spector at Sportsnet.ca. Cooke’s teammate Bill Guerin also spoke out to urge an all-out ban on hits to the head.

It’s about time some guys realized that the next time, they could be on the wrong end of a hit to the head and it’d be better to legislate those plays out first.