Rick Tocchet, the Vancouver Canucks head coach, has asked the NHL to suspend Edmonton Oilers' forward Zach Hyman for a dirty cross check on Nikita Zadorov. Yesterday, the NHL's Department of Player Safety announced verdicts on both Nikita Zadorov and Carson Soucy for their cross checks on Connor McDavid at the end of game three between the Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks. Zadorov was fined $5,000, and Soucy was suspended for one game, for cross checking McDavid in the back and in the face: <div align='center'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/Sportsnet/status/1790124146858349025'> </a></blockquote></div> <div align='center'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/NHLPlayerSafety/status/1790040204717232224'> </a></blockquote></div> In a press conference, the Canucks head coach made a massive declaration, stating that the NHL should suspend Zach Hyman for a dangerous cross check he landed on Nikita Zadorov in the scrum. <q>It's a scrum. Z got cross checked by Hyman after. I think there's a couple of incidents that George (Parros) and them are looking at right now. -Rick Tocchet</q> <div align='center'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/sportsnetmurph/status/1790115438333972751'> </a></blockquote></div> Not handing out consequences for Hyman's cross check doesn't make much sense. He did the same thing that Zadorov pulled on McDavid, but wasn't even fined. If Hyman had cross checked Quinn Hughes or Elias Pettersson, would the whole thing have ended the same way? This shows that the League is clearly giving a preferential treatment to its biggest stars. Once again, the NHL doesn't look good in a crucial moment, where the right decision had to be made to maintain the sport's reputation. Unfortunately, that's not what happened. Do you think the NHL should've suspended Zach Hyman for his cross check on Nikita Zadorov?