Don,
   I understand what you're saying but I think the analogy is a bad one. I would suspect that you might be thrown out of any fencing club for a fight whether it involved a sucker punch or not. I think that too often we try to compare apples and oranges, like when someone compares what happened in this hockey game to what would have happened if they did that at their workplace. Well, unless your workplace condones and even encourages fighting and retaliation, then I think the comparison makes no sense and yes, you would most likely be fired.

   If hockey wants to clean up its image and its sport then it should make an example of this incident. However, the NHL should only do that if they plan on following it up by punishing ALL of the incidents that have the same potential for injury. You can't have a "No Harm, No Foul" attitude because frankly, it's that attitude that has gotten them to where they are today.

Frank