Late in Friday’s game between Vancouver and San Jose, Canucks winger Antoine Roussel got involved in a scrum with Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic. Near the end of it, Roussel appeared to bite Vlasic and the league has completed its review, announcing (Twitter link) that the winger has been fined $5K, the maximum allowable in the CBA.
Roussel is no stranger to supplementary discipline having had a pair of incidents back in the 2014-15 season, one that resulted in a fine for roughing while the other yielded a two-game suspension for an illegal cross-check. However, despite his history, the league ruled that this particular incident didn’t reach the level of being worthy of a suspension.
This ruling is largely consistent with how they’ve viewed bites in recent years which have yielded either fines or have gone unpunished. The last suspension handed out for a biting incident was handed out back in 2009 when Senators winger Jarkko Ruutu was given a two-game ban for a bite on Sabres winger Andrew Peters.
What a turd.
He’s lucky he’s playing in this day and age, otherwise his penalty would involve him crapping his own teeth until Christmas.
Rooster can hold his own..
$5000? that’s an expensive bite of meat
Or Pickles in this case
Lol
Come on a fine? The dude has a history of being a Carnivore,no room that in the League he should be suspended otherwise he has proven he will just keep doing it or get the Thugs back in the league again to take care of business!
I wouldn’t mind them taming the “old time” ass kickers if they’d get on these dirtbags spitting and biting like sixth graders fighting over an Xbox controller.
member when if a player got out of line the players dealt with … Be nice if a little bit of that old style game with it’s own code of conduct was still part of it all. You bite one of us and were all getting penalties and fines lol