Habs Fans Protest Before Tuesday's Game

Photo from: CBC News

Two hundred hockey fans demonstrated outside the Bell Centre before Tuesday’s game. The protesters want the NHL to have tougher injury rules. 

The demonstration was in response to a game hit last week. The hit sent Habs forward Max Pacioretty to the hospital. Pacioretty suffered from a concussion and fractured vertebra.

Bruin’s player Zdeno Chara, who made the hit, did not receive any punishment.

The demonstrators want the NHL to have have tougher measures against head hits. Montreal hockey fans say the league is not properly addressing how to deal with serious injuries.

A hockey fan at the protest compared it to high-sticking. Asking why they could not just take head hits out of the game as well.

It is unknown when Pacioretty will be back on the ice.