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i'm sure the media outrage had a large part to play in the suspension, the league doesn't want to look bad and by leaving it open-ended they can prety much please everyone by saying it could be longer. laying that fine on the team is ridiculous, especially when you consider that hitchcock himself came out and said that "havlat will eat his lunch" and of course the resulting brawl the following game. seems like the league just makes up stuff as they go along, they don't have any concrete guidelines to go by just whatever prescedent was set previously and going by that it should've been 12 games. players have had careers ended by cheap shots that reulted in less of a suspension but of course the nhl is just worried about what sensationalist media types are saying, so they make an example out of somebody in order to suck up to them. oh well they've set a new prescedent so they better stick by it but we all know that's not gonna happen.
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