David Booth Says It's Time to Eliminate Head Shots

by Monte Stewart

Filed under: Panthers

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- It was the head shot heard around the NHL.

But David Booth has a hard time recalling it.

"I got hit off my back right shoulder," said Booth. "I'm only telling you that because of the replays I saw -- not because I remember it."

The 25-year-old Florida Panthers winger was carrying the puck into the Philadelphia end in a game last October when Flyers captain Mike Richards leveled him with a blindside shoulder hit to the head. The incident, which kept Booth out for most of the season, prompted the NHL to introduce new supplementary discipline for head shots.

Booth, who suffered a concussion on the play and missed most of the season as a result, is finally back playing regularly again as the Panthers begin the 2010-11 season in Western Canada.

 

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