Looks like we might be able to put the Random Wheel Of Justice away.Houses Of The Hockey explores Shanahan's first efforts as discipline czar.
The highlight for me:
Negotiating around intent…can overly complicate behavioral modification, especially in an area like hockey where a certain level of violence is not only expected but applauded. The league would likely be far more successful in their efforts if they chose to strictly define the behaviors they want to eliminate and then consistently applied suitably large consequences to those behaviors regardless of the actors perceived intent or motivation. Meaning no more debates about whether an action was a “hockey play” or not. No more considerations paid to whether “he really meant it”.I always said: if fighting is permitted because the reffing is bad, then fix the reffing. This is an excellent start.
(Oh, if you've noticed all the pictures are gone, that's because my hosted computer where the images are stored took a dump last week and I have not completely recovered it yet.)
