Matt Cooke hit on Tyson Barrie

[shoeshine boy]

7 games per McKenzie

really thought he'd get more. I guess that's the NHL's way of saying, "if you weren't Matt Cooke you wouldn't get anything but since you are....."

[shmenguin]

7 is ok. he's a special case and deserves harsher punishment than everyone else.

[MayIsForHockey]

Cooke isn't considered a repeat offender, correct? I thought once you went X amount of time under the new CBA, you lose repeat offender status.

I think this "clean slate after 18 months" only relates to how players lose salary when suspended. And, I think it works like this:

On an initial 2-game suspension, a player loses 2 days of salary - the two game days.
If suspended a second time in 18 months, the player loses pay for the number of calendar days needed to complete the suspension. So, if it takes 4 days to complete a 2-game suspension, a player would lose twice as much salary.

I don't know how this works in the playoffs, when players only get bonus money, not salary.

[relantel]

If that was worth 7, than the Blues should be crying foul about Seabrook's 3.