"Let's give credit where and when it's due.

In this case, it's over the suspensions handed by the NHL to Calgary Flames forward Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond and Philadelphia Flyers forward Jody Shelley Thursday.

Not so much for the banishments handed down — both received the rest of the pre-season, while Shelley had five regular-season games tacked onto his sentence and Letourneau-Leblond received one — but for finally having some openness as to how those decisions were made."