7:15 PM: Brown has been suspended for one game, the Department of Player Safety announced (Twitter link). He will sit out Tuesday night against Carolina and return on Thursday versus Pittsburgh.
1:38 PM: The Department of Player Safety announced this afternoon that they will have a hearing today for the Los Angeles Kings Dustin Brown for kneeing Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Mikhail Sergachev during Saturday nights game. The knee-to-knee hit can be seen here.
Brown, who is not new to the Department of Player Safety hearings, had a hearing only last month for cross-checking Pittsburgh Penguins’ Justin Schultz. In that incident, Brown got a surprisingly gently slap on the wrist as he was not suspended despite receiving a five-minute major and a game misconduct for the hit. He was fined $10,000. Brown had been suspended two games 18 months previous to that for a hit against Jason Pominville, then with the Minnesota Wild.
While he wasn’t necessarily classified as a repeat offender in his hearing in January, that won’t be the case this time around as a suspension would seem likely. With the Kings fighting to stay in the Western Conference playoff race (currently holding the third spot in the Pacific Division), losing Brown for any amount of time could be crippling. The 33-year-old wing has 16 goals and 38 points. He also has accumulated 52 penalty minutes, the most since he had 66 in the 2013-14 season.
dustin brown being dustin brown. worse cheap artist in hockey. people attack marchand brown is much worse. he must some really bad info on bettman or someone in power at nhl. to keep getting away with what he does.
It wasn’t even dirty lol., (the hit last night)
You’re joking, right?
It was not in purpose. The result was bad and he desevres to be held accountable but it didn’t seem like the intent was there for that to happen.
I agree there was no intent, but it was a dirty hit