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to my knowledge, criminal charges have only been persued in hockey when a stick had been used in an incident. also the nhl usually just punishes the action itself and not the result of said action. i'd say the prescedent had been set in the matt johnson case years back but then again then nhl is hardly ever consistent and since there is no hard rules as far as how long a player must get suspended for whatever particular infraction, it's left open to interpretation and of course inconsistencies.
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