I do like your system, because it would add consistency to these things, but I still strongly disagree with the immediate suspensions for hockey plays gone wrong. Honestly, what are those supposed to accomplish except taking hiring completely out of the game? Hockey is a fast sport and sometimes bad hits happen with no malicious intentions whatsoever. As long as there is hitting in hockey, the occasional bad hit is unavoidable, but by suspending players for such hits you're pretty much telling them "don't hit at all, because if you make a small mistake, we're going to suspend you.
Now if players deliver not just bad, but dirty hits they should know they can't do, I'm totally with you and they should get more and longer suspensions and slowly but surely the those dirty hits will disappear more and more. But suspensions for accidentally bad hits accomplish absolutely nothing. The only way to get rid of those would be to get rid of all hits.
The only time a suspension for those kinds of hits would make sense if you have a player who has a habit of delivering well intentioned, but very risky hits that often turn out bad. Then it would have the purpose to tell the player to cut it down a little bit. But suspending an otherwise very clean player for a single bad but not dirty hit makes no sense at all in my opinion. The player already knows it was a bad hit, he doesn't have a habit of hitting like that, so what purpose would the suspension serve?
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I do like your system, because it would add consistency to these things, but I still strongly disagree with the immediate suspensions for hockey plays gone wrong.
Honestly, what are those supposed to accomplish except taking hiring completely out of the game?
Hockey is a fast sport and sometimes bad hits happen with no malicious intentions whatsoever.
As long as there is hitting in hockey, the occasional bad hit is unavoidable, but by suspending players for such hits you're pretty much telling them "don't hit at all, because if you make a small mistake, we're going to suspend you.
Now if players deliver not just bad, but dirty hits they should know they can't do, I'm totally with you and they should get more and longer suspensions and slowly but surely the those dirty hits will disappear more and more.
But suspensions for accidentally bad hits accomplish absolutely nothing. The only way to get rid of those would be to get rid of all hits.
The only time a suspension for those kinds of hits would make sense if you have a player who has a habit of delivering well intentioned, but very risky hits that often turn out bad. Then it would have the purpose to tell the player to cut it down a little bit.
But suspending an otherwise very clean player for a single bad but not dirty hit makes no sense at all in my opinion. The player already knows it was a bad hit, he doesn't have a habit of hitting like that, so what purpose would the suspension serve?