William Nylander of the Toronto Maple Leafs flipped the hen to a TV digital camera on Sunday, incomes a $5,000 effective and a viral reminder of his conduct earlier than he performs for Sweden within the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
Nylander, out with a groin injury, sat with different scratched teammates when a TSN digital camera targeted on them throughout Toronto’s 4-1 house loss to the Colorado Avalanche.
Nylander prolonged his center finger in entrance of his face and smiled. The replay rapidly circulated on social media.
“Solely love for leafs nation,” he wrote hours later in an Instagram Story. “Sorry about my second of frustration in the present day! didn’t imply to upset anybody. wanting ahead to being again on the ice and never within the stands.”
The NHL wasn’t fairly as chirpy in announcing the effective on Monday.
“This serves as a reminder [that] the code of conduct governing Gamers extends all through the world at NHL video games and in public recreation conditions,” NHL Senior Vice President of Participant Security George Parros stated.
Sweden begins play within the Winter Video games on Feb. 11 against host Italy as NHL gamers return to Olympic competitors for the primary time since 2014.
Sweden was the third betting favourite behind america and high decide Canada, according to FanDuel.
