The problem is the majority of players get slashed, but an incident like Johnny Gaudreau getting slashed 21 times, the majority of which were intentional, needs to be addressed as more and more players are getting hurt. This includes slashes to ALL other players as well. The nhl needs to redefine what slashing is to include any hit to the hands as well as removing the words impede. For a ref to use discretion and say he wasn't impeded is what is causing so many non calls on slashing.