Post by Admin on Oct 28, 2016 15:40:59 GMT -5
Herald sports staff
Ted Fitzgerald
Bruins forward David Pastrnak has been suspended for two games for a hit to the head of Rangers defenseman Dan Girardi during Wednesday's game at Madison Square Garden, the NHL Department of Player Safety announced today.
It is Pastrnak's first career suspension in 104 NHL games.
In a video on nhl.com, Pastrnak was cited for "making the head the main point of contact on a hit where such head contact was avoidable."
The hit occurred as Girardi was attempting to play a puck out of the air at center ice. Pastrnak collided with Girardi as the Rangers player bobbled the chipped puck. The NHL points out that Pastrnak "unnecessarily extends up and into the head of Giardi, delivering a blow to the head and knocking him to the ice. This is an illegal check to the head."
Girardi left the ice but returned later and finished the game.
Pastrnak's suspension was announced after the Bruins had completed their daily practice at Warrior Ice Arena in Brighton. Before he got word on the suspension, Bruins coach Claude Julien suggested the hit should be seen as legal and said Pastrnak was going on the B’s trip to Detroit and Florida.
“Of course, he’s coming on the trip, for sure,” said Julien. “There’s no doubt in my mind (about the hit). I see a guy, his feet are still on the ice. Sometimes players are in vulnerable positions — some of their own doing, sometimes it’s just part of the game.
“I don’t think there was any attempt to injure the player; I think there was an attempt to finish his check. His foot’s on the ice. He didn’t go full tilt. He tried to control his hit.
“If you look at it slow-motion, it’s self explanatory: He doesn’t jump up, he goes through him. He still had his foot on the ice when he hit him.”
www.bostonherald.com/sports/bruins/bruins_insider/2016/10/david_pastrnak_suspended_2_games_for_hit_to_head_of_nyrs_dan
Ted Fitzgerald
Bruins forward David Pastrnak has been suspended for two games for a hit to the head of Rangers defenseman Dan Girardi during Wednesday's game at Madison Square Garden, the NHL Department of Player Safety announced today.
It is Pastrnak's first career suspension in 104 NHL games.
In a video on nhl.com, Pastrnak was cited for "making the head the main point of contact on a hit where such head contact was avoidable."
The hit occurred as Girardi was attempting to play a puck out of the air at center ice. Pastrnak collided with Girardi as the Rangers player bobbled the chipped puck. The NHL points out that Pastrnak "unnecessarily extends up and into the head of Giardi, delivering a blow to the head and knocking him to the ice. This is an illegal check to the head."
Girardi left the ice but returned later and finished the game.
Pastrnak's suspension was announced after the Bruins had completed their daily practice at Warrior Ice Arena in Brighton. Before he got word on the suspension, Bruins coach Claude Julien suggested the hit should be seen as legal and said Pastrnak was going on the B’s trip to Detroit and Florida.
“Of course, he’s coming on the trip, for sure,” said Julien. “There’s no doubt in my mind (about the hit). I see a guy, his feet are still on the ice. Sometimes players are in vulnerable positions — some of their own doing, sometimes it’s just part of the game.
“I don’t think there was any attempt to injure the player; I think there was an attempt to finish his check. His foot’s on the ice. He didn’t go full tilt. He tried to control his hit.
“If you look at it slow-motion, it’s self explanatory: He doesn’t jump up, he goes through him. He still had his foot on the ice when he hit him.”
www.bostonherald.com/sports/bruins/bruins_insider/2016/10/david_pastrnak_suspended_2_games_for_hit_to_head_of_nyrs_dan
