It was, after all, the very thing that confined him to his wheelchair 15 years ago during a Junior Development League game. He's as vocal as ever, with a difference. And he makes them convincingly in the aftermath of Toronto Maple Leaf Tie Domi's playoff suspension. He doesn't agree with Domi's infamous elbow to the jaw of New Jersey's Scott Niedermayer but he thinks it's ridiculous in comparison to the type of act that put him in a wheelchair. Allore likened the league's reluctance to that of a municipality refusing to install traffic lights at a busy intersection.
Nothing happens until there's a fatality at it.
Even Marty McSorley's stick to the helmet of Donald Brashear and the 23-game suspension he received troubles him when he compares it to lack of similar suspensions for hits from behind. A concussion is one thing. A hit from behind can change your life forever. There's no respect. I don't think any player has a right to decide the rest of another player's life.