The National Hockey League has handed a hard punishment to Chris Simon of the New York Islanders for taking his stick to the face of Ryan Hollweg of the New York Rangers. Simon will be suspended for at least 25 games: 15 for the rest of the seaon, the post season if the Islanders actually make it into the playoffs and 10 games into next season. With this suspension, the NHL is making a stict example of Simon - as they should. He was a goon in how he went after Hollweg.

You can see the cheapshot here: