It’s not often I fully agree with Don Cherry and he is the last time I expected to fall on this side of the fence on this subject, but last night on his Coaches Corner segment on Hockey Night in Canada he addressed the cheapshot, blindsided head-shot by Matt Cooke on Marc Savard and the lack of a suspension that followed. Everything Don says here is bang on and when he takes this view point you really know these kind of hits are wrong because Don is usually right behind gritty, physical, tough North American style Hockey. Amazingly some people still think the Cooke hit was okay and so I despair, but thankfully the powers that be are looking to address these vile incidents.

The most disturbing bit of all was hearing that Savard is having to spend his time in a dark room unable to even watch television due to his concussion and so to think that Cooke is back playing again is quite disgusting.

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