They carted off Marc Savard on a stretcher on Sunday, now see if the NHL sweeps him under a carpet.

Matt Cooke could wind up with a suspension, the general managers committee will have another intense deliberation on the topic on Tuesday and there will be more hand-wringing about head shots in the media and demands for automatic minors and majors.

But tinkering with the physical element of the game touches too close to home for a lot of people and not just those with power and influence. As much as the Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins were critical of Cooke on Monday, and to a lesser extent, Chris Neil of the Senators, who flattened Toronto's John Mitchell shoulder-to-noggin on Saturday, they were hesitant to urge more pages be jammed into an already thick rulebook.