Protection

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Penalties should be given for high sticking, not for actual contact.

People should be ejected for actual contact.

I'm against high sticking, even with cages, but penalties have to be proportional to the incident.

Are you suggesting any time a mallet goes over shoulder height that player should be removed from the game for a period of time, and any time someone is it hit on the helmet with a mallet that player should be throw out of the game, regardless of whether there was any risk, or injury, respectively.

I find that disproportionate, and believe it would radically change the game.