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With NHL phenom Sidney Crosby looking unlikely to play this weekend's All-Star Game because of a concussion that has already sidelined him for two weeks, some are hoping this will be the turning point for a harder stance on head shots.

Crosby was injured after taking two hits to the head in two successive games.

The first came on Jan. 1, when he absorbed a nasty blindside hit from the Capitals' David Steckel in the Winter Classic. The second came courtesy of the Lightning's Victor Hedman on Jan. 5.

Crosby -- still the NHL's leading scorer despite being out for nearly two weeks -- says he continues to experience headaches that are preventing him from returning to play or even practice.

The incident has spurred the normally reserved athlete to speak out about the league's reticence to take shots to the head seriously.

Crosby told reporters earlier this week there's something fundamentally wrong with the way the NHL identifies and penalizes head shots. He appeared irritated that neither player who hit him was fined, even though the NHL has vowed to mete out punishment for blindside head hits. (Hedman received only a boarding penalty.)

While Crosby is denying reports he might skip the All-Star game to protest the lack of punishment, some, like TSN's Gino Reda, are hoping Crosby's concussion experience will lead to changes.

"There is clearly something fundamentally wrong," the long-time host of the hockey magazine show, "That's Hockey" told CTV's Canada AM Thursday.

While some have accused Crosby of only taking an interest in talking about head shots after he become victimized by one, Reda says it's understandable.

"When it happens to you and you realize: I can't get up and go for a walk, I can't get up and ride the stationary bike, there's no shot of getting back on the ice with the way I'm feeling right now -- when you feel that, you realize this is not a small thing; this is huge," Reda said,

Last season, the NHL introduced , banning blindside and lateral hits to the head. Yet the injuries continue. Crosby's concussion -- the first in the 23-year-old's career -- is just one of 33 in this NHL season so far.

Reda says he welcomes Crosby trying to foment some change and hopes it's a turning point.

"This is an enormous issue in the game that has to be dealt with," he said, noting that concussions have ended many an NHL player's career – most notably that of Eric Lindros and his brother Brett.

Eric Lindros has also spoken out, issuing a statement provided to Canada AM that reads: "It's ironic that it takes big names getting injured to bring light to the issue.

"It is my strong opinion that there has not been an increase in the injury, just a more professional manner in which they are now being documented that would suggest an increase. Hopefully in the future it will be called what it truly is... a brain injury that causes brain damage and as such, will be given the attention it requires," Lindros said.

Others are also speaking out, including hockey agents. It's thought that one of the reasons Steckel and Hedman were not suspended is that their hits were perceived as "accidental." But prominent hockey agents, such as Don Meehan and Crosby's own agent, Pat Brisson, say players should be held accountable regardless.

"A head shot may not be premeditated but a player should suffer the consequences," Meehan told The Globe and Mail.

Reda says hockey officials need to start taking head hits and concussions more seriously.

"In Major Junior, they have now. They said there's no contact whatsoever to the head in the Ontario Hockey League. And I think we're getting to the point – I hope we're getting to the point -- where in the National Hockey League, it's not going to be a matter of whether it was a blindside hit; any contact to the head has to be ultimately banned from hockey. It has to be."