Why else would you put a former goon (George Parros) in charge of on-ice discipline? It believes that violence attracts more paying customers. This is the only way to explain the ludicrous one game suspension for Alex Pietrangelo for his Paul Bunyanesque attack on Leon Draisaitl.
It would appear that this department’s actual function is to safeguard the players who commit deliberate attempts to injure more so than their intended targets. Surely the players who are the targets of unmistakable attempts to injure cannot feel that they are being safeguarded by this misnamed department. The tall foreheads at the NHL must have been reading the novel “1984” when they decided to name the on-ice disciplinary arm of the NHL the Department of Player Safety. Leafs mailbag: It’s tough to make sense of the NHL’s approach to player safety, May 12
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