Matthews will miss the games against Dallas and Carolina this week while forfeiting 116k in salary.
For a perennial Lady Byng candidate with no priors, this is a joke, and as much to do with the spotlight on the team and the event the incident took place in as the actual infraction, which isn’t too far removed from everyday scrum behaviour that often goes unnoticed across the league:
If we’re going to sit here and point out the inconsistencies in the DoPS wheel of justice and the role the media plays in elevating some incidents over others, we’d be here all day.