Watch the front on view, :57 on the YouTube vid. Paille's elbow clearly comes up and makes direct head contact.

EDIT: Not to mention that the head whips around before the body and shoulders move, which is also clearly indicative of head contact.

Boston Bruins forward Daniel Paille has a Friday morning disciplinary hearing scheduled with the NHL, a source told ESPN.com.

The hearing, to be conducted by phone, will be run by league vice president of hockey operations Mike Murphy and not league disciplinarian Colin Campbell. Campbell's son, Gregory Campbell, is a Bruins forward and was involved in Thursday night's game against the Dallas Stars, in which Paille was ejected for an illegal hit to the head.

Paille got a match penalty for his hit on Stars forward Raymond Sawada in the second period of the Bruins' 6-3 win in Boston.

Sawada had lost control of the puck and as he leaned down to gain control, Paille connected with a blindside hit to Sawada's shoulder and head.

Sawada was able to get up on his own and skated off, but did not return.

Paille was not available to talk after the game.

"It's a bad hit, right? That's what they're trying to get rid of and you can't be hypocritical about it when it happens to you and say it's fine when your teammate does it," Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference said. "You hear it from every player after they do it; they feel bad. I talked to Danny and he feels bad. It's tough, that backchecking forward, to make those kind of hits. It's so hard to do it in a clean fashion with the new rules."

It was an unusually violent game from the start. In the first four seconds of the game, there were three separate fights. Stars agitator Steve Ott bloodied Gregory Campbell one second after the puck was dropped. That was followed by Boston's Shawn Thornton pounding Stars forward Krys Barch one second later.

And then Boston's Adam McQuaid was fighting Dallas' Brian Sutherby four seconds in as the crowd roared with approval.

Watch the front on view, :57 on the YouTube vid. Paille's elbow clearly comes up and makes direct head contact.

EDIT: Not to mention that the head whips around before the body and shoulders move, which is also clearly indicative of head contact.

No need for violence, just tell her she's got a game misconduct and show her the door.

As I said in the GDT, the call on Rivet was horseshit. The Bruins player was holding onto Rivet's stick like it was the last fucking raft on the Titanic.

Physics would argue with that completely.

what? the head is separate from the shoulders/body. if someone is hit in the side of the head, the head would move, because your neck allows that to a certain point, before the body follows suit.

also, most concussions come from when you are struck from the side, because your head whips violently. worst place to get hit in the head? the jaw.

No need for violence, just tell her she's got a game misconduct and show her the door.

As I said in the GDT, the call on Rivet was horseshit. The Bruins player was holding onto Rivet's stick like it was the last fucking raft on the Titanic.

If you suddenly stop movement within the body, the head will keep moving regardless if you hit the head or not, that is the same as if you are in a car without a seatbelt and someone slams the brakes, you will keep moving forward inside the car while the car slows to a stop.

And if the body stops moving forward, and the head still goes, that is clearly not head contact, if the head moves back while the body still moves forward, that would be clear head hitting.

I never watched the hit, don't care to. Just saying that's how physics is.