Gaudreau's the target of fresh NHL fine.
Well, it's not like he didn't deserve it but...
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Johnny Gaudreau has been fined 2,000$ by the NHL today for embellishing during March 5's game against New York. Here's the sequence:
Granted, embellishment is clearly attempted by Gaudreau on the sequence. It's important the NHL continues to fine players for it, or else the league will become a soccer replica.
However, fining a player earning 6.75M$ a year that little an amount won't change a thing. Not a single player, even the rookies with a lowly 525,000$ salary, will ever change his attitude because of a 2,000$ fine. In fact, the progressive scale of the fines is worthless when the 8th and last ladder tops at 5,000$.
Anyhow, don't do that again Johnny. You lost the equivalent of a good wine bottle there, that's gotta hurt!