The Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators have been battling in an intense Eastern Conference quarterfinal series, which culminated in a line brawl during Game 3.
Habs, Sens won’t face discipline for Game 3
Jana Chytilova/Freestyle PhotoIn total, 12 fighting majors, five game misconducts, five roughing, two misconducts and an instigator penalty were called in the final 13 minutes of the contest. This included a line brawl following the Senators’ taking a 4-1 lead.
If Friedman is accurate, the league has decided to look the other way.
Read Article >Fight night in Ottawa
Jana Chytilova/Freestyle PhotoWow, what a finish.
The Senators would score again in the third to move to a 4-1 lead, and then things got ugly:
Read Article >Rene Bourque elbows Cory Conacher
USA TODAY SportsHey man, that’s not cool. Fighting is one thing, but this is DEFINITELY not allowed.
Bourque recieved a two-minute roughing minor penalty on the play, which seems ... insufficient. He can probably expect some supplemental league discipline for this move, once the Department of Player Safety is finished watching all the awesome fight videos from this game.
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