^Excellent post BTW, but I have to nit pick on Stevens.
There a difference between a cheap shot to the head, and a clean hit. Any Stevens hit he has done, whether it was Paul Karyia last year in the playoffs, or Lindros hit a few years back, those are clean shoulder hits, when both victims had their head down, and Stevens laid the shoulder into him. He tuned Karyia cleanly, and knocked the wind out of him, and his shoulder hit on Lindros, well dumbass (Lindros) didn't have his helmet on tight enough, which could have prevented the concussion.
Yes Stevens nails people hard, and sometimes it goes to the head, but never intentional, there's a major difference between a clean hit, and deliberate