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Question: Good job by the NHL suspending (Anaheim defenseman James) Wisniewski for eight games. Here's a suggestion for NHL for its head shots rule: First offense, 10 games; second offense, 20 games; third offense, gone for the season plus playoffs (plus, his team gets no salary-cap relief). Drill the message into the heads of the players and owners before someone winds up in a wheelchair or dead on the ice.

Dominic Hung, Vancouver, British Columbia

MOLINARI: That really was a wicked hit Wisniewski put on his former Chicago teammate, Brent Seabrook, last Wednesday, and an eight-game suspension hardly was overdoing it. Wisniewski's hit was such a hybrid of so many blatant infractions -- boarding, charging, interference -- that the league had no choice but hand down a severe punishment. (On second thought, perhaps it did, since it found a way to grant a pass for nasty head shots delivered previously by Philadelphia's Mike Richards and Matt Cooke of the Penguins.)

The NHL seems to be intent on cracking down on blows to the head, although an outright ban doesn't seem likely, and there's no better way to make it known that a particular violation won't be tolerated than to attach a stiff penalty to it.

However, one-size-fits-all justice isn't necessarily the way to go, especially for first-time offenders. The circumstances of each incident really do have to be taken into consideration before a suspension or other penalty is handed down. Certainly, it wouldn't be right to treat what Wisniewski did -- where the malice was premeditated and impossible to miss -- the same way as a play on which contact with the head was inadvertent.

If the league is serious about removing head shots from the game, the latter would have to be punished, but the penalty has to fit the offense.

Remember how, in Friday's Q&A, it was noted that if more proposed nicknames for the Consol Energy Center came in, there might be a sequel to that list?

Well, there won't be a sequel. There will be sequels. One follow-up list simply won't be enough, because dozens, if not hundreds, of submissions have rolled in over the past few days.

A partial list appears below, with the first person to propose a nickname getting credit for it, and there will be another in Tuesday's Q&A. And, if necessary, another after that.

• Lemieux Gardens (Don Saly)
• The Pitt (James Walther)
• Tuxedo Junction (Michael Hanley)
• The Consol Castle (Fred Apple)
• The Best (Chris Barnett)
• The New-gloo (Randy Steele)
• The Cave (Vance Chase)
• The PensHouse at Consol Energy Center.(Sam Sinclair)
• The Ice House (Larry Palvekosky)
• Goal Harbour or The 'guin's Bin (Mark Cot??)
• The Ice-Burgh (Noel Twyman).
• The Power House (Brian Toth)
• The Arctic Circle (Glenn Johnson)
• The Coal Harbor (Brad Krenicky)
• The Glacier (Chiron Otero)
• The Power Plant (Justin Miller)
• Power Place (Jerry Wolfe)
• The Coal Palace (Dave McFadden)
• The Tundra (Paul Seelinger)
• The Iglemieux (Scott Mowry)
• The Energy Rink (Rick Baker)
• The Freezer, The Cooler, The Ice Machine (Fr. Mark Weiss)
• Tri-Sid'y Center or Trisidy Lemieux Center (Mark Ulam)

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