It happened on March 8, 2011.
A 6’9″ locomotive smashed a player into a partition with the puck nowhere near, a blatant infraction, and the player went down, out cold, with doctors and trainers scrambling to hold his head steady as he was strapped to a stretcher. The locomotive was thrown out of the game, and it was soon discovered that the receiver of the attack suffered a fractured vertebra in the neck and a severe concussion.
Would you think the 6’9″ locomotive might receive at least some kind of discipline because of this?
Big Zdeno Charo played the next game and the game after that, was never suspended, while Max Pacioretty was in a Montreal hospital bed with a broken neck and the possibility that his playing days were in the distant future only if he was lucky.