David Perron to Appeal Six-Game Suspension; Agent Takes to Twitter to Sound Off on Department of Player Safety's Hypocrisy

On Tuesday evening, the NHLPA announced that it had formally filed an appeal of the NHL's decision to suspend Detroit Red Wings forward David Perron for six games.

Perron received the suspension for a cross-check to the head of Ottawa Senators defenseman Artem Zub delivered in the aftermath of Mathieu Joseph and Parker Kelly knocking Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin unconscious.

Perron's initial appeal will go straight to NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.  Should Bettman stand by the Department of Player Safety's decision, Perron will have the right to have his appeal heard by a neutral arbitrator.

Perron's six-game suspension is the longest administered by the NHL's DPS since February 2022, when Brad Marchand earned a six-game ban for roughing/high-sticking Tristan Jarry.

Perron's agent Allan Walsh took to Twitter to showcase similar incidents to Perron's cross-check on Zub, all of which received lesser consequence's than Perron's six games.

Of course Walsh is an interested party, but he makes a valid point about the NHL's lack of clear precedents and consistency in its adjudication. 

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