[NHL Player Safety] Winnipeg’s Neal Pionk has been fined $5000, the maximum allowable under CBA, for Cross-checking against Minnesota’s Marcus Johansson.
Winnipeg’s Neal Pionk has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Cross-checking against Minnesota’s Marcus Johansson.
— NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) April 12, 2023
by DecentLurker96
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Really hoping this means Johansson did not have any ribs cracked or broken. If that’s the case, I’ll take that trade off.
Well, it’s not nothing. I hope MoJo is doing okay.
when you give a fine to a rich person it’s not a punishment, it’s a tax
So I expect Hartman to receive the same.
This is very NHL
whats the fricken point. NHL is idiotic.
Now he only makes $6,495,000 this year… How is that punishment?
And Hartman gets a game?! What a fucking joke! The wheel of discipline is back
A $5000 fine for something clearly intended to injure, but Hartman gets suspended for interference…
**Player safety is a fucking JOKE.**
It was a Cheap Shot with the full intent was to HURT another team’s player! I hope that we, the WILD, get another crack at these overrated wannabes in the Playoffs!!!
Good.
So to put into perspective of what a joke the NHL DOPS and CBA is with fines, let’s do a little math shall we? So i currently work as a QA tester for a gaming company. I make $20 an hour working full time so according to an online calculator i make about $40K a year. Neal Pionk under his current contract makes $6.5M this season. He was fined $5K, which is 0.077% of his salary for the year. So hypothetically lets say my company has the same policy as the NHL. If i go to a rival company’s office and intentionally attempt to injure one of their employees, and my company fines me 0.077% of my salary, and gives no other disciplinary action. I get fined $30.80.
What a fucking joke. If i actually did that i would no doubt be fired and rightfully so. Or at the very least suspended. Albeit my job is a farcry from being a hockey player, but still. That kinda shows why a max fine of $5K for a play like that is abysmal