On Tuesday, Zdeno Chara introduced Evander Kane to the precepts of chaos theory, at least as the NHL understands them.Helmet askew and looking like a man who’d just been thrown out of a moving car, Kane staggered to his skates and went looking for a fight. The coaching term for that is ‘poor decision-making in the offensive zone.’Throwing down with Chara is like choosing to fistfight a phone pole. If the pole punched back.
Chara has more penalty minutes in his career than I have dollars in my chequing account. And though not a goon, he is a bit of a piano man – he enjoys tuning people up.That wasn’t the case a few days earlier when Connor McDavid hit Nick Leddy. That was also a shot to the head, though as best one can tell, inadvertent. The only difference was that, unlike Kane, Leddy stayed down for a while.
You do not pull the circus into town and then tell the ticket-buying rubes, “Sorry, Dumbo was being a real jerk to the other elephants so we left him back at the railyard for a week. Hope you enjoy the clowns.” The league can and it is. It should be doing everything in its power to showcase McDavid. It should be doing that right up to and maybe just a little beyond bending the rules.
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