Fans of Toronto Maple Leafs can push a sigh of relief while striker Max Domi escaped a suspension for his blow on the captain of the Panthers Alexander Barkov in the last seconds of the Florida 2-0 victory on Sunday evening.
On Monday morning, the NHL announced that it would amend the Maple Leafs to the front of US $ 5,000, the maximum authorized under collective negotiation between the League and the NHL players’ association, rather than issuing a suspension.
With a few seconds to stay, Doma sank in Barkov, nailing it in the boards from behind and causing a scrum between several players in the region.
Doma would receive a five -minute boarding school, while Toronto striker Bobby McMann, the Florida defender Aaron Ekblad and the striker of the Panthers Brad Marchand were each was transmitted by 10 minutes.
The Panthers winger Matthew Tkachuk was taken in front of the camera at the final buzzer seeming to say to the leaf striker William Nylander: “I’m going to have you.”
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“That’s what he does,” Nylander said about Tkachuk. “He will probably do everything he can to remove a player from his game. The next game will be fun.”
Leafs coach Craig Berube told journalists that he felt like a hit earlier by Dmitry Kulikov of the Panthers on Mitch Marner “was 10 times worse” than the Domi incident.
Kulikov seemed to have threw a elbow on Marner, but escaped the penalty on the game.
After the competition, the boss of the Panthers bench, Paul Maurice, told journalists that Barkov had not been injured on the game.
Toronto fans would have been rabid with the NHL headquarters had been suspended while Florida striker Sam Bennett received a free pass for a elbow on goalkeeper Anthony Stolarz halfway through the opening match of the series.
This blow left the Maple Leafs without their goalkeeper for the last three games in the series. In place of Stolarz, Joseph Woll filled and held the Leafs in the Sunday evening competition which allowed them to exceed a total of 37-23.
“Has an excellent match,” said Toronto head coach Craig Berube about Woll.
The two teams will meet again on Wednesday evening in Toronto on Wednesday evening for match 5 of the seven best series which is currently on a par two victories each.
“The two teams took care of the ice at home, so we are there. We have to continue to push, clean up certain things, get better in different areas,” said Captain Maple Leafs Auston Matthews after match 4.
“Back on the ice at home, be excited about it.”
* With Canadian press files
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