14 Jun
The Vancouver Canucks’ defenseman Aaron Rome has been suspended for the rest of the year following a hit to Boston Bruins forward Nathan Horton.
Nathan Horton will also miss the rest of the season because the injuries he sustained. He was delivered a late hit by Rome after he delivered the puck. The puck traveled 15 feet and Winger Milan Lucic had time to stickhandle it when Rome delivered a shoulder to helmet hit on Horton who was watching the progress of the pass.
Commentators are applauding this decision as this will be deterrent to future incidents like this. Similar incidents which caused concussions cut short the careers of Eric Lindros, Pat Lafontain and players loke Sidney Crosby and Marc Savard are in danger of facing the same fate and hopefully Horton will not be joining that list.
Rome will miss four games of the Stanley Cup final and this is the first time a player has been given such a harsh penalty and it has come just in time to preserve the honor of the NHL and hopefully a lesson will be learnt from this.