Milan Lucic fined $5K by NHL for obscene gesture in Montreal
Milan Lucic, we get it.
You’re in the penalty box, you’re facing the crowd, your gloves are low enough where perhaps it’ll go unnoticed that you’re pantomiming masturbation to the Montreal Canadiens fans.
Alas, it did not, and Milan Lucic was fined on Friday by the National Hockey League for that lewd gesture.
From the NHL:
Boston Bruins forward Milan Lucic has been fined $5,000 for an obscene gesture made during Game No. 53 in Montreal on Thursday, Oct. 16, the National Hockey League’s Hockey Operations Department announced today.
Lucic expressed his self-satisfaction late in the third period of the Bruins’ 6-4 loss at the Canadiens on Thursday night. He was penalized for boarding after hitting Montreal defenseman Alexei Emelin after he had released the puck – an opponent, incidentally, that Lucic threatened to “kill” during their post-series handshake in the 2014 Eastern Conference Playoffs.
Lucic went to the penalty box, faced the fans, had a stroke and then raised his hands in the air to mimic hoisting the Stanley Cup. Which, as we said at the time, was really the obscene gesture considering Lucic (1 Stanley Cup) has some catching up to do with the Canadiens (24 Stanley Cups).
It was a scant two years ago that another Bruin, current Edmonton Oiler Andrew Ference, was fined $2,500 for an obscene gesture in Montreal, in which he gave Canadiens fans the finger located between his index and his ring.
But the Lucic punishment still pales in comparison to the granddaddy of all sexual gesture punishments: James Wisniewski in 2010, who was actually suspended two games for a graphic sexual gesture made with this mouth towards Sean Avery of the New York Rangers. Under the CBA at the time, the most he could have been fined was $2,500. The suspension cost him over $79,000.
So consider yourself lucky, Milan Lucic, for only having gotten lucky with yourself.
