This league is a joke the way they are criminalizing Sabourin is just pathetic. As much as it was just a bum rush and for the most part normal hockey compared to what Greer did to Hagel.

“Sabourin's incident happened only minutes into the game, with the Lightning enforcer going for a blindside hit on Ekblad, then throwing punches at the Panthers defenceman. Ekblad went back to the team's locker room after the play and did not return.”

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/nhl-begins-discipline-for-hectic-battle-of-florida-pre-season-game/

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  2. Greer sucker punched Hagel with a glove on while Hagel was holding his face, yet they call THIS a blindside hit. I’m tired of people victimizing this Florida team who has gotten away with doing much worse to people.

  3. I honestly don’t get it. I feel like I’m being too much of a homer and/or we’re being gas lit, right? I totally get why Sabourin is getting a hearing, it’s super obvious why he was called up and what he was going to do. I get that, no issue whatsoever.

    The face that Greer only got fined $2k and shitty, chippy Verhaege got nothing for leaving his feet on a nasty boarding play that *actually injured one of our players*? That’s insane to me…

  6. Seriously, someone should do an analysis on the discipline with the Panthers vs the League. I want to give the NHL the benefit of the doubt, but having the Campbell connection presents a conflict of interest.

  7. The last line is fitting…
    “No punishments have yet been announced for Panthers players.”

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