Montreal Canadiens forward Maxim Lapierre has been suspended for four games for a late hit on San Jose forward Scott Nichol during Thursday night's Sharks win.
Early in the third, Lapierre knocked Nichol into the end boards with a late joke of a hit. Nichol laid on the ice for some time before getting up. He left the game favoring his shoulder and did not come back.
After the game, Sharks head coach Todd McLellan told the San Jose Mercury News he thought the hit was "a missed call and a real dangerous play."
"There was, as far as I'm concerned, a really dirty hit on our guy." said Sharks defenceman Dan Boyle. "Pushing a guy from behind into the boards, I have not seen the reply yet, but you can paralize a guy and there is no place for that in hockey."
It is still unknown how serious an injury Nichol suffered on the play.
Lapierre will be eligible to return March 13 against the Boston Bruins.
But the best part of this is below... Ray Ferraro is the color guy teamed with Chris Cuthbert... and Razor goes absolutely off...
Awesome television...
((HT: TSN/NHL))
The HQ agrees with Ferraro. Lapierre has been a disinterested player at times, dating back to his stint in Hamilton with the Bulldogs. The HQ just wishes Razor could have dealt Max some frontier justice on his own...
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