Can we trust the NHL to enforce its own head-shot rules?

After the NHL's general managers announced last week that they will soon enact legislation that would penalize hits to the head, I asked captain Chris Clark(notes) of the Washington Capitals for his reaction to head-shots soon becoming illegal.Which was: "I thought they already were."His answer perplexed me a little, because there's been such a rabid debate over drastic measures regarding hits to the head during this injurious season. We needed new rules, right? We needed new legislation to eliminate checks involving the head from NHL games; from making certain types of hits illegal to nearing a total ban of contact with an opponent's head.Clark's matter-of-fact answer was a revelation about how some players feel regarding the potential head-shot rule: They're already illegal, but they're just unenforced. It's a notion that aligns these players with characters like "Mad" Mike Milbury, who feels new rules about hits to the head are supe...