The New York Rangers were fined an extraordinary $250,000 by the NHL on Thursday for “demeaning” public comments about head of player safety George Parros.
After the league’s department of player safety fined but did not suspend Washington’s Tom Wilson for his role in a scrum against the Rangers that left Artemi Panarin injured, the team released a statement calling the decision a dereliction of duty and saying Parros was unfit to remain in his job.
The Rangers were fined 50 times more than the $5,000 fine against Wilson for roughing Pavel Buchnevich. It's believed to be the largest publicly announced fine of an NHL team by the league office for making critical comments. "Public comments of the nature issued by the Rangers that were