The Colin Campbell wheel of justice has once again determined that star players receive kid’s glove treatment and players that aren’t stars receive different treatment and unequal punishment, imagine if Clutterbuck or Boogaard had done the same thing.
Clutterbuck was upset Gonchar wasn't suspended by the NHL.
"I'd have been suspended indefinitely," Clutterbuck said. "There's no doubt that all he was trying to do was hurt me."
Gonchar told Pittsburgh reporters: "[Clutterbuck] hit me in the head, which I thought the NHL was now looking for. ... In my opinion it was a late [hit], a [dirty] hit and that's why I paid him back."
As for Gonchar's hit, Clutterbuck said if he was knocked out or taken off the ice on a stretcher, "then it's an uproar. But because I got up and my nose is bleeding a little bit, it's a different story?"
Clutterbuck was irritated that Monday's referees, after much debate, gave Gonchar a five-minute major for interference rather than elbowing. Because of the cut nose, a game misconduct would have had to be imposed with an elbowing major.
"Why are they going out of their way to keep this guy in the game?" Clutterbuck said.
Clutterbuck led the NHL with 356 hits last season and leads the league again this season with 182. Some critics have com
[Star Tribune]