Depending on how close you follow hockey, you may or may not have seen this video yet from yesterday’s Rangers-Devils game of Sean Avery blatantly faceguarding Martin Brodeur and trying to block his vision by waving his arms and stick back and forth:
Well, the NHL, in the middle of the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, has decided, going forward, that this now warrants an unsportsmanlike conduct minor penalty, which I think is totally absurd. Has this ever happened before? Has a league ever created a rule on the fly, nonetheless during the playoffs? I wonder if this had happened to Dan Ellis or Martin Gerber, instead of Martin Brodeur, or if the antagonist had been anyone else other than the despised Sean Avery, if the NHL would have been so quick to react.
