It's time to gut the NHL's Department of Player Safety and Start Over

I'm going to keep this one short and sweet but my blood is boiling. Tom Wilson, noted goon and a guy who continues to cross the line without proper repercussion, pulls a Todd-Bertuzzi like temper-tantrum last night and attacks two defenseless players, first pummeling Pavel Buchnevich in the back of the head while he was down on the ice and then followed that up by pulling Artemi Panarin's hair, sweeping his legs out from under him and slamming his head (without a helmet) into the ice. This is not the 1970s, this behaviour has absolutely no place in the game of hockey I don't care what team you cheer for.

And yet, a $5000 fine is all he got. 

FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR FINE???

For a repeat offender, a guy who was suspended 7 games for this garbage head shot on Brandon Carlo exactly two months ago today

What the hell are we doing here? Why does the Department of Player Safety even exist if it doesn't care about the safety of their players first and foremost? George Parros and his entire crew should be absolutely ashamed and embarrassed for what they have done to the sport of hockey and this is the last straw. The NHL needs to clean house, fire the entire department top to bottom, and start fresh with second-party impartial observers who don't care about the "integrity of the game" and simply care about the safety of their players. While we're at it, replace all these NHL refs who care more about puffing their egos and game management then they do about calling the game as it should be.

This is not beer league hockey, this is the best league on the planet. Tom Wilson deserves to be suspended for the rest of the regular season + playoffs, a stern message that might finally get him to clean his act up, and yet he walks away with a measly $5000 fine (a guy who makes $5.16 million a season!). This is not hockey folks, and if you aren't as outraged as I am then you aren't paying attention.

I ask the NHL this final question, why have a rulebook to begin with if you aren't going to call the game as it should be and protect your players as they deserve to be protected???

Joel Forman - The Forman Faceoff