Criminal charges should not be brought when the league as a whole is responsible. Just as a football player knows each game might be his last, every hockey player understands the tremendous risk involved when he straps on his skates. To hold one man legally accountable for the demands and nature of his sport is unreasonable.
Hockey may be a strange sport to some--it is the only professional sport that does not severely punish fighting among its players--but it is nevertheless a sport in the truest sense of the word. And it is also a sport that, like all others, has every right to police itself. So even if we may need to clean up hockey, pressing charges against McSorley isn't the way to go about it.
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