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L’Affaire Myers shows that the NHL is more than content to ignore the inconvenient

With 2:28 remaining in the third period of a 6-3 hockey game, Tyler Myers made contact with Joel Armia’s upper body, sending the Montreal Canadiens forward to the ice with what was later diagnosed as a concussion. After conferencing and video review, the on-ice officials, Kevin Pollock and Reid Anderson, assessed a match penalty, ejecting Myers from the game and subjecting him to potential supplemental discipline.

The official scoresheet records this event as “Event 289: PENL VAN #57 MYERS. Match penalty (10 min), Served By: #36 HOGLANDER. Drawn By: MTL #40 ARMIA.”

Friday evening, the Department of Player Safety (DoPS) declared that Myers would not receive any additional discipline, declaring that “Tyler Myers’s check on [.