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Yesterday, Predators (and Czech Republic) forward Martin Erat took a hard high hit from Libor Hudacek of Slovakia in the IIHF Hockey World Championship. Czech Republic General Manager Slava Lener said Erat suffered a concussion. This appears to not be the case. According to Erat’s agent Mike Deutsch, the Predators’ leading scorer from 2011-12 did not suffer a concussion. Deutsch said Erat is ‘fine’ and that he suffered a bit of a ‘stiff neck.’ Either way, the hit raises the question of NHL players, important NHL players to their teams, taking part in this event. If you look at the hit, it was the type of play that would draw the ire of NHL Senior Vice President of Player Safety Brendan Shanahan. Hudacek wasn’t looking at the puck — and appeared to never notice that Erat had gotten rid of it. He was targeting Erat’s upper body/head area the whole way. He also used his shoulder to explode upwards into Erat. What type of discipline did this draw from the IIHF? It was decided after the game that the incident wouldn’t be reviewed by its “Disciplinary Panel” according to the official release. While it’s good to keep playing hockey — and nobody should ever be discouraged from playing for your country — these situations do happen. It sounds like the Predators dodged a bad situation with Erat. But it could have been a lot worse.  

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