NHL can take cue from China

Kudos to China's winter sports authority for swiftly handing down the kind of justice that should serve as a blueprint for the weak-kneed North American millionaires club known as the National Hockey League.

Last week, during a China Hockey League game between Qiqihar and Chengde in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, Qiqihar forward and former China national team player Lang Bingyu sent Chengde's Huang Peng sprawling to the ice from a vicious elbow to the head, then used his stick to spear Huang in the face, knocking out three teeth and inflicting a deep, bloody gash.

Huang, captain of China's U-20 squad and one of the nation's most gifted young players, was hospitalized after taking 42 stitches to close the wound.