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The Fining Of The Philadelphia Flyers

01/10/2015 at 8:20pm EST

from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

Granted, when the Flyers willfully violated terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement by traveling on Dec. 26, it was not exactly a capital crime.

Except it was, because it struck at the core of what the league professes to hold so near and dear, and that’s integrity of the competition.

I mean, that’s why the NHL has a hard cap, right?

Oh.

But anyway, of course scheduling the Flyers to play in Nashville on Dec. 27 was unfair.

Kind of like scheduling the Flyers to play against the Predators any time or any place this year would be unfair. Wait, who said that?

But such inequities happen all the time. The Rangers, for instance, played their home opener as a tired team having traveled after a game the previous night in Columbus while their opponents, the Maple Leafs, were rested and waiting in New York for the Blueshirts.

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Just a thought, but perhaps if Bruins CEO Charlie Jacobs’ father, “Mr. Jacobs,” wasn’t one of the most hard-line hawks through Owners’ Lockout III, the B’s wouldn’t have been forced to dispense with Johnny Boychuk in order to stay under the cap.

Or maybe that’s just me.

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