Player Safety, the Orwellian-named department of the NHL that exists to administer supplementary discipline, is likely not going to suspend Tom Wilson today. And when everyone is angry or cynical or just wants to get their hot take out on the internet after that non-suspension happens (again) the target of all the ire will be George Parros. Everyone knows he’s just a goon, and has no business running Player Safety, right?
But this isn’t a failure to act on dispensing discipline. This is the rules and processes of the NHL working as intended. They taught Tom Wilson how to deliver life-altering, permanently damaging hits to other players without getting so much as a minor penalty.