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Originally Posted by cKy
WTF does income he makes outside of hockey have to do with the amount he should get fined? If Chelios was still playing and got fined, would they take his taxable income from his restaurant into account when deciding the dollar amount?
He got fined the max by the NHL. 10K to them is like a speeding ticket to us. Ever get a speeding ticket? Say you make 40K a year, and you get a $100 speeding ticket. Would that be enough to stop you from speeding ever again? Probably not, but I bet you would second guess speeding in the same location.
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Woosh!
Say you make 40k a year, and you get a 1000 dollar speeding ticket, you will NEVER speed again. You get suspended 5 games without pay, you lose roughly 130k. That happened to Bourque last season. I'm not arguing against Gio, I'm arguing against the general method the NHL uses to punish people. If you want to eliminate slewfooting, you suspend a player for that long and make him lose a huge chunk of his pay and he will never do that again, and it will serve as an example to the NHL. Same goes for hits to the head, hits from behind, etc.