After a blowout loss to the New York Rangers last night, the Montreal Canadiens are suffering an additional loss on their blue line. The team announced earlier that defenseman Justin Barron is considered day-to-day with an upper-body injury and is likely to be re-evaluated before the team’s next game against the St. Louis Blues.
Barron’s injury stems from a massive body check delivered by Rangers’ captain Jacob Trouba in the third period of last night’s contest which consequently ended Barron’s evening. The hit (Video Link) came with approximately 13 minutes remaining in the game with New York already holding a three-goal lead. Barron attempted to carry the puck into the offensive zone until he was immediately stopped in his tracks by Trouba.
It’s made clear in the video that Trouba came into contact with Barron’s head as a result of the hit which had a few members of the Canadiens’ organization seeking supplemental discipline for Trouba. Longtime veteran of Montreal, Brendan Gallagher, was publicly discomposed with the lack of penalty called on the play saying, “They had a clean hit on the ice, we have a hit to the head from a player that’s had multiple, multiple warnings. So, whether the league decides to do the right thing, whether he gets another pass, that’s up to them“.
ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski reported earlier that the league’s department of player safety won’t be issuing any supplemental discipline for Trouba. The league interpreted Barron’s chest as the main point of contact with the blow to the head being excused by Rule 48.1 of the NHL’s Official Rules which states: “whether the player attempted to hit squarely through the opponent’s body and the head was not ’picked’ as a result of poor timing, poor angle of approach, or unnecessary extension of the body upward or outward“.
I loathe that gutless ****. If not for (one of) his (many) dirty chicken wing on Sid, we beat that NYR team in 5 games with an AHL goalie. Seriously, F that guy.
But, that hit seemed clean.
Gutless he is not.
NHL is a joke when it comes to discipline
Easily worse than the fine on OEL the other night.
Of course it was clean as the day is long..I have seen worse in alot of games that was missed..
Cmon fellas his wife is a 4yr medical student the guy deserves a break
This time it was a clean hit. Not like the many of previous ones.
You are all millennials. You couldn’t handle old time hockey for F-sakes. “I played juniors and never got hit. What do you mean I should keep my head up when I play with the big boys?”
You can’t handle the truth…….
Now get off my lawn!!
Rangers fan. Trouba hater. He has that same set of “special rules” that applied to Chara, Pronger and a couple of other guys the league loves and always refuses to discipline. DPS is a joke. Bettman is pathetic.
Pronger was suspended 8 times and fined on top of that several more. And Chara was like 7 feet tall in skates so guys were always running into his elbows.