If you noticed after the game on Sat, Hoth had his hand bandaged and I suspect when he went to retaliate for the hit on Faryna he couldn't fight because of a injured hand and slashed instead. Bad penalty ? Maybe but when you're in the heat of the battle, split second decisions aren't always the best. Hate to bring this up but when you don't have a deterant like the Devils had last year( Bordy ) this is going to happen again and again. Hoth was lucky on Saturday night that he didn't get the instigator and he steps up again on Sunday night, albeit not a smart play. So the question is, who else is going to start stepping up ? You don't want one of your top players being taken off the ice for 5 minutes or more. That's exactly what the other teams are looking for and it's only going to get worse if someone else doesn't start stepping up or they don't go out and get an legitimate enforcer