During the Chicago Blackhawks‘ game last night, Adam Boqvist was injured due to a dirty hit from Oskar Sundqvist.
No matter how much the league might want to pretend to care about player safety, actions speak louder than words. Fining a player that is making $2,750,000/year a paltry $5,000 is frankly pointless.
Are we supposed to think that Sundqvist cares now? As if he were fined less the punishment stick?
“Oh well, $5,000, gee, I guess I shouldn’t do that anymore. If had only been $4,000 then maybe the league’s safety commissioner probably wouldn’t have been so mad, but $5,000?