No justice in the NHL

And Colin Campbell continues his history of inconsistency. One series after suspending Milan Lucic for a game for cross checking an opposing player near the face, Scott Walker receives a $2,500 fine for sucker punching Aaron Ward.

Let me get this straight. Lucic hits a guy with a his stick a little high, cause a slight cut and gets a 2 minute cross check and a match penalty and receives a one game suspension. Lapierre wasn't even hurt. Walker hits Ward when he doesn't even have his gloves dropped, gets 17 minutes in penalties, and his hit may result in lost time for Ward. Not only does he not receive a suspension for this but even the rule mandated suspension for an instigator penalty in the final 5 minutes of a game is rescinded. Where is the logic in this? How does this make any sense? And on top of it Carolina coach Paul Maurice is allowed to make light of the situation after the game last night and suggest that what happened was no big deal. This is why there will always be fighting in the NHL because if the league brass are not willing to look out for the players on the ice, then the players will just have to do it themselves. I just hope the Bruins don't get too caught up in trying to kill Scott Walker and spend their time trying to win the game first. Make no bones about it, should the game get out of hand one way or another, Shawn Thornton or Byron Bitz is going after Walker.