No matter how you view the case, I think it is important to take a look at the role the updating process played in this. Because what we really should avoid is a case where someone gets punished quite harshly now for things that maybe wouldn't have gotten him into any trouble at all if they had been caught right away, as they should have.

If I look at my own updates in recent weeks, I screwed up a bunch of times and made mistakes that luckily the updaters all caught right away so i could simply correct them. If they hadn't been so diligent, could I have ended up being punished like Stamkos did here as well in an audit months or even years later? Although, again, all this changes if it was concluded that this was a deliberate attempt at TPE cheating and not an honest mistake. If it was deliberate then the suspension is more than fair, if it wasn't then it is probably too harsh.