- Editor's Note: Sheng Peng will be a regular contributor to NBC Sports California’s Sharks coverage. You can read more of his coverage on San Jose Hockey Now, listen to him on the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast, and follow him on Twitter at @Sheng_Peng.
Marc-Edouard Vlasic is about to play his 1,179th NHL game, but he can’t tell you why the Minnesota Wild’s Mason Shaw escaped league discipline for a high hit on teammate Radim Simek on Sunday night.
Simek, struck just 24 seconds into his first shift of the contest, would leave the game with an upper-body injury. He did not return and was put on the IR by the San Jose Sharks the next day.
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“Apparently, the league thought it was clean. I don’t make the decisions. But I guess it was clean. Guy got hit in the head and it was still clean,” Vlasic told San Jose Hockey Now with his trademark touch of sarcasm.
“But unfortunately,” he said more earnestly, “I still don’t know where the line is.”