bootlegga bootlegga:
There's a massive difference between getting checked at centre ice and someone grabbing you from behind and punching you in the head, knocking you out cold. If anyone else did what Bertuzzi had done anywhere outside of a hockey rink, they would have gone to jail, period.
Ever hear the saying "Keep you head up" - that's why most of those other guys are finished. They ignored that very important piece of advice and paid for it.
Don't get me wrong, I think players who deliberately try to injure other players (like that SOB Craig Muni) should be exiled from the league like McSorley was, or at the very least, suspended until the injured player comes back.
Scott Steven's hit people with the full intention on hurting them as did so many other guys of that era.
We just went through an entire era of hockey with contact was purely a maneuver to injure and not to knock the player off the puck as intended. We celebrated it.
Had Moore's hit on Naslund caused his career to end, there would be no legal action yet hits like that are often far more devastating. Ask Lindros.
CKA Uber 
