George Parros is useless in his job as senior vice president of the NHL’s ironically named Department of Player Safety.
He acts as a human guardrail against prosecuting predators. That apparently was the job description when he was hired following a 474-game NHL career in which the Princeton product picked up 1,092 penalty minutes and engaged in 158 fights while recording 18 goals and 18 assists.
This isn’t the first time Watson has committed a similar offense. He was suspended for two games for an elbow and shoulder to Boston defenseman Jack Alcahn just last February. That was his second two-game suspension. Motte is all but certainly concussed. A supermajority of players will never be guilty of a headshot, but far fewer are protected against becoming victims. An overwhelming majority of players will never be suspended, but their union — at times actually on request of the player or the player’s agent, understood — all but automatically argues in favor of lower sentences rather than harsh ones that might act as both deterrents and punishments.
I would submit there probably has been worse that has gone unpunished than this Watson incident, but that is no excuse for leniency. We’re not only talking about peoples’ careers and earning power, we are talking about quality-of-life issues that may develop later. No one wants that. No one believes anyone knowingly sanctions that.
The commissioner’s decisions seem arbitrary, supported perhaps by the letter of the law, but not by its spirit. Which one of those scenarios seems like circumvention and which seems like an organization doing necessary disruptive contortions in order to win a long-elusive Stanley Cup?
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