Good news Pacioretty is alive, but who knows when and if he will ever play again

Inconsistent or Insensitive, or is the NHL both?

Here's the story,

Biggest guy in the league, Zedeno Chara pulls a interference check on Max Pacioretty. Pacioretty ended up hitting his head of a station of glass, dividing the player benches. The glass divider looks like turnbuckle, like in the WWF - George the Animal steal used to take off the padding, eat the innards of the padding and then drill his opponent into to the bare turnbuckle. What a mess it was. But George was one of my favourite wrestlers, as were the Bushwakers and other zany goons.

Back to Chara

Chara is real. The NHL is real, George than Animal steel is fake. Max Pacioretty fractured the 4th vertebrae, luckilly, luckilly its not displaced or he could be paralyzed or even dead. He has suffered a severe concussion as well.

I don't know why Chara decided to finish his check like that. Did Chara not notice the stationment of glass in the middle of the ice, he was skating towards the boards, i'm sure he saw it. From the replay, we see Pacioretty dump the puck past Chara, and as Pacioretty tries to go around him and after the puck, Chara interfere's with him and finishes the check late, taking a major penalty sending Pacieortty head first into the bench post. I can't but think of the Georgian Luger Nodar Kumaritashvil who lost his life in the luge incident that took place in training the day before the Olympics started. The NHL will probably have to make the ice rink bigger. Players are too fast, too big and the ice surface is becoming to small. Players are getting hurt too often. Many times because players are just caught up in the same area and collide either by accident or on purpose. Hitting is part of the game, but its getting to a point with the size of players and the evolution of pro-atheletes who are much stronger and lets be serious there are steroid drugs and the equiptment has become like armour. Just ask Don Cherry, he has been talking about this for years.

The Chara-Pacioretty hit was hard to watch. No matter how many all replays the television shows I see a late hit and deserving of a suspension. I would of given two games. Pacioretty was skating with great speed and was trying to go inside on Chara. Chara with his 6'9" frame, is never easy to go around, but Chara went to far, instead of only holding the man up he finished a late check where he should of let up. Did Chara know where he was on the ice? I think so, he was able to turn around and skate up ice towards the becnh and I think he knew what he was doing. The NHL has issued no further penalty.

A player for the Islanders Gilles bumped a player from the side and into the boards last week and was given a 10 game suspension. Gilles hit was less dagerous and far less violent than that delivered by Chara. Gilles was sticking up for a teamate who was drilled on a bad angle into the boards.

You tube the videos.

Many NHL analysts are shocked there was no further suspension or fines issued by the league.

Bob Mackenzie spoke to Pacieortty who was on the phone from the hospital in Montreal. Pacieoretty couldn't believe there was no suspension.