I spoke with Craig Adams at the team hotel Wednesday night and he expressed some confusion over his two-game suspension, comparing it to the hit from behind by Randy Jones of the Flyers that knocked Boston's Patrice Bergeron out indefinitely with a concussion earlier this season. Jones was suspended for two games as well.

"I was very surprised," Adams said. "When it happened, it was obviously an accident. I was concerned how it would look on the tape, but given the fact that the ref was standing right there and only gave me a minor penalty and the fact that nobody on their team looked at me sideways, I figured everyone kind of saw what happened and got a good feel for it.

"So it’s disappointing. I don’t understand where it sort of fits in the context of other things that we’ve seen this year. You hit a guy from behind and put him out for four months with a concussion, you get two games. You accidentally hit a guy over the helmet with your stick, with no intent and no injury, and you get two games. I have no idea how that works."

In February 2002, Adams was suspended for 10 games for leaving the bench during a fight.

12/20/07 at 06:04
To suspend a guy two games for a minor high stick that amounted to nothing when there were lots of actions on the ice that were truly dirty and did cause injury is mind boggling. Seems like Adams was chosen at random to make some sort of statement.

If the NHL wants to make yet another statement - and one that might accomplish something - they could openly address poor officiating and start suspending/fining those guys, too.