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On a lot of nights now, the NHL looks a bit like basketball on ice: a high-speed, high-level contact sport, sure, but not as much of a collision game as some traditionalists would like. A good majority of today’s NHLers grew up without throwing so much as a punch they’re drafted for their skill sets, not as killers. Problem is, even as the league office clings to rock ’em, sock ’em nostalgia - and contrary to the Rangers’ calls for Parros’s head, it’s a nostalgia that exists far above the pay grade of the head of player safety - the players who populate its dressing rooms have evolved. As Colin Campbell, the longtime NHL executive, has said more than once of the league: “We sell hate.” If the brain health of players is better for it, the NHL clearly doesn’t want to wholly remove the lure of such blood lust from its midst. It sees visions of its more raucous past - a time when a more plentiful roll call of apex predators like Wilson made the game more violent, mostly because science and society hadn’t been sufficiently clued into to the human-wrecking toll of head injuries. It tells you, above all, that the league looks at Wilson and it sees something it can’t help but love.
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Still, it’s not right that Wilson will be free to take the ice for Wednesday night’s Capitals-Rangers rematch while Panarin is expected to miss New York’s final three games of the regular season with an undisclosed injury the team said he suffered in the incident with Wilson. Wilson has been around long enough to know that Panarin posed no threat to him, even if Panarin, to be fair, clearly poked the proverbial bear by draping himself across Wilson’s back at one point in the melee. But given Wilson’s lengthy rap sheet - he has been suspended five times and has now been fined three other times in his eight-season career - his latest dalliance in personal anger mismanagement certainly warranted a sit-down, preferably one that cost the Capitals his services for some of the impending playoffs. Not that Wilson deserved a lifetime or even season-long ban from the sport, as some irrational voices were suggesting. I think a lot of guys in our dressing room just feel like they didn’t.”
Said Rangers forward Ryan Strome: “As players, you want the league to have your back in those situations. Safe to say there were Rangers employees who put the situation into better perspective.
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Lest you forgot the Rangers are owned by James Dolan, the petulant cable-TV scion who is among the most reviled and least successful owners in pro sports, there was the unhinged, all-caps diatribe to remind you. “We view this as a dereliction of duty by (Parros) … and believe he is unfit to continue in his current role,” the team wrote. In a highly unusual statement released Tuesday evening, the Rangers called for Parros to be fired, saying they were “extremely disappointed” that Wilson wasn’t “suspended indefinitely” for his “horrifying act of violence.” And the Rangers were outraged, as were a lot of folks who would like to see the NHL eventually outgrow its reputation as a “garage league,” as the great Mario Lemieux once so timelessly described it. So the discipline amounts to pocket lint, even if it is the maximum allowable monetary penalty under the collective bargaining agreement. Wilson, the highest-profile alumnus of the North Toronto Hockey Association, earns $5,000 in less than a minute’s work. Pro-rate Wilson’s $5.2-million annual salary over his nightly average of 17 minutes of ice time and do the math.
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Wilson was fined a grand total of $5,000 (U.S.) for his involvement in the post-whistle scrum in which he could have easily cracked the skull of the aforementioned superstar, Artemi Panarin of the New York Rangers, after Wilson punched a defenceless Pavel Buchnevich in the back while Buchnevich lay face-down on the ice, the specific crime for which the league levied its fine. It tells you the National Hockey League’s notoriously hapless “department of player safety,” currently run by former enforcer George Parros - he of the 1,092 career penalty minutes and 18 career goals is as oxymoronic as it has ever been. I spot checked a ton of the CF ID's from last years list, and they all match up and are shoowing in game.The Washington Capitals’ Tom Wilson wasn’t suspended for body-slamming a helmetless NHL superstar to the ice on Monday night, which tells you a few things. I have added Rasheed Wallace (0389), Chris Webber (8540), Larry Bird off the Dream Team (8558), Charles Barkley off the Dream Team (4645), and David Aldridge (6166). I have removed Steve Nash, Carlos Boozer and Marcus Camby.
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