Chicago Blackhawks: NHL player safety has let us down

This afternoon on my way home I saw that Oskar Sundqvist was fined $5,000 by the NHL Department of Player Safety, and I think that’s worthless.

During the Chicago Blackhawks‘ game last night, Adam Boqvist was injured due to a dirty hit from Oskar Sundqvist.

No matter how much the league might want to pretend to care about player safety, actions speak louder than words. Fining a player that is making $2,750,000/year a paltry $5,000 is frankly pointless.

Are we supposed to think that Sundqvist cares now? As if he were fined less the punishment stick?

“Oh well, $5,000, gee, I guess I shouldn’t do that anymore. If had only been $4,000 then maybe the league’s safety commissioner probably wouldn’t…