Fines hearings and possible suspensions after last night’s game

Photo by Darcy Finley/NHLI via Getty ImagesAfter the zoo-like festival of emotion as the Leafs took on the Jets, the results are starting to come in:

Toronto’s Wayne Simmonds has been fined $2,250, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Cross-checking Winnipeg’s Jansen Harkins.

— NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) December 6, 2021 Simmonds offence initially led to a two-minute penalty plus a ten minute misconduct. When he came back from sitting for 10, he ended up in fight that got called roughing. He could likely have been fined for that event too, if the NHL was in a mood to make a point.

The incident that set this all off, of course, was Neal Pionk’s hit on Rasmus Sandin. For that:

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