While it was a busy day on the trade front on Friday, the Department of Player Safety was busy as well. On top of handing out three fines, they also announced that Senators center Parker Kelly received a two-game suspension for an illegal check to the head on Kings defenseman Andreas Englund.
The incident occurred late in the third period of Thursday night’s matchup. He received a two-minute minor for an illegal check to the head on the play while Englund also received a minor for roughing as well.
It’s the first suspension of Kelly’s career and he’ll forfeit a little under $8K which goes to the Players’ Emergency Assistance Fund. Kelly will miss tonight’s game against San Jose and Tuesday’s contest versus Pittsburgh. Ottawa shouldn’t need to recall a player to take his place on the roster with their addition of Boris Katchouk off waivers yesterday so they won’t need to use one of their four post-deadline regular recalls.
a lot worse hits by repeat offenders are less
GP and the DoPeS strike again.
Incidents like this one make the refs look incompetent.
The bigger question here is how is Parker Kelly playing in the NHL? I watched him play in the WHL and didn’t think he was even a very good junior.
Quite possibly you are not a great judge of talent.