VIDEO: Marc Savard Knocked Out By Matt Cooke’s Elbow To The Head

Here’s the hit put on Boston’s Marc Savard by Matt Cooke of the Penguins, as was mentioned earlier. The first 50 seconds are a little useless; the slow-motion replays don’t begin until 0:50 or so.

It’s plain to see that Cooke’s elbow, while almost admirably surreptitious, was an intentional blow to the head, and one he’s pulled before (see his hit on Artem Anisimov earlier this season). And while the league has long been accused of punishing the result rather than the act, the fact is that Cooke’s elbow to the head resulted in exactly the type of outcome befitting the danger involved in a hit like that.