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Morning roundtable: Antoine Vermette's 10-game suspension is a complicated thing, but will be cut

Scott Burnside: If Antoine Vermette of the Anaheim Ducks wanted to avoid a double-digit suspension, he should have speared an opponent in the face like the Detroit Red Wings' Gustav Nyquist did to the Minnesota Wild's Jared Spurgeon, earning just a six-game suspension. Hey, officials are sacrosanct and Vermette crossed a line by whacking linesman Shandor Alphonso after being ticked off the puck was dropped before Vermette was ready. Maybe the actions don't warrant the full 10-game hit called for in the rule book, but good on the league for starting there.