TORONTO- After working together with the NFL on how to cut down the number of head shots in the NHL, the league is considering following the NFL’s model, and imposing 15-yard personal foul penalties on players who deliver deliberate blows to the head. Head shots have been increasing at an alarming rate in the NHL, and the league is looking at all options on how to eradicate them from the game. The NHL has taken notice that in the NFL, shots to the head decreased significantly after the automatic personal foul penalty for such hits was instituted.
“We are looking at all our options,” said NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. “We’ve taken notice at what the NFL has done, and we’d like to follow their lead in order to stop the number of concussions happening in the game. We really like the way they use the 15-yard personal foul penalty, and are hoping we will be able to find a way to do the exact same thing.”
When asked how he plans on enforcing a yardage penalty in a sport that isn’t measure in yards and has no distance markers, the commissioner just reiterated that it is important to find a way to stop blows to the head, and that the league is willing to do anything to stop them from happening.
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