I think something that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention in the past is that the wheel of justice definitely takes into account the negative media attention of an incident in how many games someone gets. A lot of pretty minor things have received more games than expected because the league got embarrassed by US press coverage or extended attention on HNIC and shows like Tim and Sid. If clips of Kassian show up on ESPN or whatever down in the states, this is getting 5 games for sure.
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