REPORTED FINES JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG?

Every week, a handful of players are publicly outed as having been fined for various on-field actions from their most recent games.
As one league source suggests, however, the fines that become public are only a small piece of the total fines that are imposed for violations such as unnecessary roughness and helmet-to-helmet hits.
Per the source, the reported fines might be as little as ten percent of the total fines that are now imposed.
And the concern in some circles is that the system for appealing these fines still doesn’t entail an external decision-maker. Instead, the league office continues to decide the fine in the first instance, and then to consider whether to change it on appeal.
With CBA negotiations presumably starting soon, it might be wise for the union to ask for the league to refer the appeals of these fines to an independent arbitrator, who would have full power to decide whether to affirm, reverse, or modify the punishments.