No hearing for Carey Price as some complain of preferential treatment.

Carey Price dodges a bullet.

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No hearing for Carey Price as some complain of preferential treatment.

There was some outrage on Thursday night when Montreal Canadiens' star goaltender Carey Price was allowed to remain in the game after throwing punches with his blocker. 

That outrage will likely now be amplified even more following the announcement from the National Hockey League's Department of Player Safety, an announcement that has made it clear there will be no supplemental discipline for Price, no hearing at all in fact.

While Price did receive a pair of minor penalties on the play, there are some who believe the NHL rule book calls for a match penalty in this scenario, and there is a case to be made here. NHL rule 51.3 reads as follows:

Match Penalty – If, in the judgment of the Referee, a goalkeeper uses his blocking glove to punch an opponent in the head or face in an attempt to or to deliberately injure an opponent, a match penalty must be assessed.

On the other side of the coin, Price is obviously very protective of his knee after missing nearly all of last season with a major injury, and his net had already been crashed earlier in the game causing him to lose his cool after being run over a second time.

For those of you who missed it all, here's a video of the incident on Thursday night:

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