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Originally Posted by Ron Bennett
Just as with Football players, NHL players have become too valuable to let get beaten up, and hence the ever increasing stricter rules and harsher penalties in both those sports.
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Yep. While there will undoubtedly be some suspensions that are questionable and seem lame/cheap they have to protect the players. People pay a lot of money to see these games and they don't want to see the star players knocked out for weeks/months at a time.