The NHL's decision may put Sidney Crosby in danger.

While there hasn't been any kind of official announcement from the National Hockey League, Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly did inform ESPN insider Pierre LeBrun that the league isn't current investigating Sidney Crosby's slash on Marc Methot.

Unfortunately in the past when star players have escaped punishment after injuring a rival player, the player's themselves usually seek their own form of vigilante justice. While the Senators players themselves have not issued any kind of threat to the Penguins, the language used by NHL owner Eugene Melnyk this morning was quite vitriolic.

Here are a few excerpts from his interview:

"You do anything that's almost a certain injury, and I think the only way to do it is you wipe the guy off the map."

"He took my guy, I take your guy, and that's my attitude"

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The Senators will not play the Penguins this season, although there is the possibility that they could meet in the playoffs, and given the severity of the injury to Methot he could still be absent from the line up at that point. 

One has to wonder if Methot's teammate won't try to extract their own punishment from Crosby.