I wasn't going to send this, because I thought I might be in the minority;
apparently it has caught the attention of a lot of you.
 
I saw the Denver-Wisconsin game.  A agree that the officials tend to let a lot
of things go, and so that makes it a league problem.  But there are those
players out there (fortunately few in number) that get carried away.  There
just isn't a nicer way to say this:  Sean Hill is just a plain hack.  He was
one at Duluth East HS and he is one now.  Players like him give ice hockey a
bad name.  This isn't biased because I'm from Minnesota and were talking about
a Wisconsin player; I've never seen a Wisconsin player as cheap as Sean Hill.
Wisconsin players are built of skill and character--I should know, because
most of them are from Minnesota.
 
It was a cheap hit that Hill put on Aikens.  But Sean has a lot of experience
at that kind of stuff and can conceal it well.
 
Maybe a year suspension would give this type of player time to think carefully
about the situation; it would at least prevent further injury.
 
Dan Glumac
University of Minnesota