FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The NHL has suspended Tampa Bay Lightning ahead Scott Sabourin 4 video games for his actions within the workforce’s preseason finale towards the Florida Panthers on Saturday night time.
The NHL ruling, handed down Monday, means Sabourin will forfeit $16,145.84 — or roughly $850 for each second he performed in Saturday’s penalty-filled debacle.
It’s unclear when Sabourin will serve the suspension as a result of the Lightning despatched him again to Syracuse of the American Hockey League on Monday. Sabourin performed in just one NHL recreation final season.
Sabourin — who was on the ice for less than 19 seconds Saturday — was given a match penalty for going after Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad simply 2:17 into the sport. That hit set the tone for a matchup through which officers referred to as 65 penalties, issued 13 recreation misconducts and handed out 312 penalty minutes.
There have been so many penalties referred to as that the on-ice crew evidently misplaced monitor of who had been kicked out. Florida’s Niko Mikkola was credited with an help halfway via the third interval on a objective that was disallowed about quarter-hour later as a result of Mikkola was unaware he had been ejected earlier within the interval — and subsequently ineligible to be enjoying.
“It received foolish. It received silly by the top of it,” Panthers ahead Evan Rodrigues mentioned that night time. “It wasn’t actually hockey on the market.”
Sabourin was one among six gamers the Lightning referred to as up Friday for Saturday’s recreation. These strikes got here someday after the Lightning and Panthers had one other preseason recreation that includes 49 penalties and 186 penalty minutes.
Ekblad left Saturday’s recreation after the hit from Sabourin. He was capable of follow Monday and is anticipated to play when the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions open their season at house Tuesday towards the Chicago Blackhawks.
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