When I was in high school we had a kid who was way better then everyone else playing at the time on a rival school. He was known for his Crosby type antics(hooking, holding slashing away from the play) but he would turtle if anyone tried to engage him. So one time tine a meaningless game since we had already clinched a spot in the Flyers cup tourtament(big thing for those who don't know). I instructed my team that every time he does something like that that they were to either slash his ankles/wrist as hard as possible, turn around and spear him in the gut or just grab him and start throwing punches. We took a lot of penalties in the first period but he was still doing his same dirty shit. So off the opening face off in the 2nd I purposely missed the puck put a nice strong upswing into his crotch and when he cross checked me I grabbed him drug him over to the front of his bench and beat him bloody to the point where he was defenseless as he fell(I stopped hitting him at that point). The kid never did any of his cheap shit again and was still way better then everyone else in the league.
This is really unfortunately the only way to deal with those type of players, you have to target them to the point of trying to hurt them and be willing to lose a game by a wide margin to even stand to make a point. Plus with a 30 team league(well 15 this season) unless it's a policy adopted by all team participating it won't work.
However I do think there has to be a way to address this particular problem because it seems that the Pens( Cindy & Gina) in particular get to benefit from a more lax interpretation then the other 29 teams and that gives them an unfair advantage night after night. Possibly through the NHLPA board?
all of this is just IMO
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i could which this all day. every day.