Who's in and who's out

The collective sigh of relief by Bruins fans last night when Chara came back out on to the ice has been followed by a collective groan as the cheap shot Scott Walker gave to Aaron Ward may have broke his orbital bone. Walker gets an automatic one game suspension for the instigator penalty in the last five minutes of the game but hopefully Colin Campbell will tack on a few more. The 10 games suggested by E.J. Hradek of ESPN seems more appropriate.

I have a better idea. I think that when someone intentionally does something to injure another player they should be suspended for as long as that player is injured. For example, Ulf Samuelsson would have lost years for his knee-to-thigh hit on Cam Neely. Todd Bertuzzi would have been out for good for his hit on Steve Moore. If Ward truly did have his orbital fractured and he has to sit several games or, even worse, the rest of the postseason, then Walker should have to serve a suspension of at least the same length.