How the NHL will lose some fans.

How? Let's see:

The recent Zdeno Chara hit on Pacioretty, followed by the lack of any discernible sanction to at the very least, discourage such hits throughout the league. The re-signing of all-star commissioner and overall douchebag, Gary Bettman as commissioner of the NHL, a major hockey league, a sport he clearly knows nothing about, the fact that the NHL governor, Mr. Jeremy Jacobs, also happens to be the owner of the Boston Bruins, that the league disciplinary prefect Colin Campbell, also happens to be the dad of another Campbell NHL player who also happens to play for the Bruins...

Are those a lot of "also" being used in one long sentence to describe a lot of coincidences? Or is it indicative of a possible cover-up, over cover-up, lies and misinformations?

In a sport that supposedly makes the bulk of its revenue in the USA, a country that is struggling financially through a huge crisis, the appearance of impartiality is something important, and the thought does occur: What if it was the NFL?

Would it make things any better?

Henrik Sedin, one of the top NHL star players commented the non suspension of Chara "because Chara had no priors", by stating that if Chara is never suspended for anything he does, then he would never have any priors now would he. And that the NHL should start somewhere.

The fact that Chara has one of the best slapshots in the league, that he is a regular at all star games, does not put him above the regulations, if it did then Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen would have gotten away with their respective (and illegal) escapades.

Zdeno Chara should have been suspended, if only for a couple games, as a show of goodwill but, with the Bruins locked in a race for first place in their division, the loss of Chara would have penalized them, dramatically favoring the Habs in this race.

Much in the same way that the loss of Pacioretty, a player that was in his breakout season, is going to penalize the Habs.

Where is the impartiality?

Someone should tell the commissioner that nobody's going to follow a sport once it has been established as being arranged. The WWF comes to mind...