Violence In Hockey

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or time. McSorley was all ready aggravated form a fight that took place earlier on in the game with McSorley on the losing end of the battle with Donald Brashear. Marty McSorley knew that the Bruins were not going to win, so there was nothing else to lose. With three seconds left in the lop sided game, McSorley approached Brashear on the Canucks blue line and gave him a two handed chop across his head with his stick. Brashear fell to the ice and hit his head with enough force to nock him unconscious. The players on the ice at the time took exception to this and a brawl broke out between the Canuck players and the Bruin players. Once the referees sorted out the mess and the game was over, the commissioner of the NHL Gary Bettman went right to work sorting out McSorley’s punishment. Once the dust had cleared and everything had settled down, the boss gave McSorly a 23 game suspension that would last the rest of the regular season along with a $72,000 fine. If the punishment laid ...

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day the diagnoses was that Kariya had suffered a grade one concussion. This is the worst kind of concussion and forced Kariya to miss the Nagano Winter Olympics. Kariya also missed the rest of the NHL season(28 games) because of post-concussion syndrome. The most surprising thing of the whole incident may be that the culprit Gary Suter only received a four game suspension and a $1,000 fine. Most people who saw this incident and the Marty McSorley incident would say that this one is just as severe, yet Suter received only a fraction of what McSorley received. The chief disciplinarian Brian Burke state on February 13, 1998 that if he knew the extent of Kariya’s injuries at the time ...

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