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It might have been a combination of his previous history and the string of bad hits the last week or two leading to the NHL having an emergency meeting to reconsider adding more hits to the head as illegal. Cooke's biggest problem was this recent suspension came almost right after he finished serving another suspension so the NHL probably felt he didn't learn and gave him a harsher one.
With Avery, he was pissing off a lot of goalies and after a while the NHL stepped in to add the rule against "harassing" goalies while also hinting to Avery of if does it again there will be game suspensions.
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