News/views: Rinaldo gets eight games … really

The Penguins and Flyers scrapped after Zac Rinaldo blindsided Kris Letang last Tuesday. — GETTY

BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC

News: Zac Rinaldo, the Flyers’ hired thug who blindsided Kris Letang last Tuesday in Philadelphia, was just suspended eight games by the NHL.

Views: That’s it?

Wow, I mean, you think you’ve seen maybe Exhibit A for a repeat offender willfully injuring an opponent, then not only expressing zero remorse but actually publicly gloating about it and then, on top of all that, blowing off his hearing with the league … and somehow the NHL’s Department of Hilarious Inconsistency gets eight games out of that.