Laughable: Lucic Suspended?

According to NHL.com, the NHL has suspended Boston Bruins LW Milan Lucic indefinitely following his cross check to Maxim Lapierre in the 3rd period of Saturday's 5-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens. Following a blown whistle, a what has been annoying Maxim Lapierre came charging at Lucic to step between his scrum with defensemen Mathieu Schneider. As Lapierre came charging at Lucic, Lucic raised his stick and gave an apparent cross-check to the face of Maxim Lapierre.

As mayhem ensued as it does with any Montreal vs. Boston game, Habs 'tough-guy' Mike Komisarek joined the chaos and ripped Lucic's helmet off. Following a 3 minute delay of play, Lucic was given a 5 minute game misconduct for the cross-check and was sent to the dressing room. However, the bigger news didn't come out until after the game.

As many Bruins fans got home and onto their computers, they soon found out that Lucic had received a match penalty and will be suspended until a disciplinary hearing was held. Of course, the hearing is pending but in all seriousness, has can the NHL honestly give Lucic a suspension for this?

Just two days ago, in the final seconds of Boston's 4-2 win over the Canadiens in Game 1 an incident occurred in the Bruins corner. Tom Kostopoulos made a clear as day intent to injure elbow to the head of Matt Hunwick.

Now, you can't watch that and try to seriously say that Kosto wasn't going for the TKO on Matt Hunwick's head. Now for a league who's current aim is to reduce injuries to the heads of their players, to let such an action go without any punishment is laughable. However, the cross check to the helmet of Lapierre is worth a suspension? What about Cammelleri's punch to Havlat's head? Thank you Colin Campbell, thank you for proving your inconsistency yet again.