If all is just, the league shouldn’t punish the Boston Bruins further than the fact they’ve now got an injured number-one goaltender. To tack a one-game suspension on the tail of any injury return for Tuukka Rask would be hugely unjust.
After all; Jake Guentzel, Kyle Palmieri, Dougie Hamilton, Joonas Korpisalo, Darcy Kuemper and Logan Couture won’t be punished for missing the game due to injury.
Given that Tuukka Rask announced his decision to skip the All-Star Weekend, for as he put it ‘selfish reasons’ on January 13th and promptly went down with a concussion the next day, it’d fair to point out the fact that the Boston Bruins could’ve delayed announcing his decision for 48 hours and this would never have been a concern.