LAS VEGAS — San Jose Sharks center Joe Thornton was arrested Monday for one playoff recreation for success to the top of Vegas’ Tomas Nosek.
The NHL’s department of player safety mentioned that Thornton’s hit on Nosek in sport 3 was once avoidable and that the top was “naturally the main level of contact.” That ended in dropping Thornton for sport four on Tuesday night in Las Vegas.
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Sharks’ Joe Thornton suspended for recreation 4 for a head hit
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Thornton used to be an illegal test to the head on the play and defended it after the game.
“I honestly thought I barely touched him,” Thornton stated after the sport. “He just came proper again; it was once simply one of those plays that it’s what it’s. I think my son hits me like that six occasions a day; it’s only a bizarre position to put himself in, that’s all.”
Sharks’ Joe Thornton suspended for sport four for a head hit
The Golden Knights felt otherwise regarding the hit within the 2nd duration of a 6-3 victory that gave them a 2-1 sequence lead.
“It’s gutless,” Vegas forward Ryan Reaves said. “It’s at the back of the play. It’s to the pinnacle. It’s everything you’re looking to do away with in hockey.”
Thornton’s closing suspension got here in November 2010, when he was banned for two games for a head hit to St. Louis’ David Perron.
Thornton is a critical piece in San Jose’s lineup, centering the 1/3 line alongside Marcus Sorensen and Kevin Labanc and taking part in the top energy-play unit. He has one goal and two assists in the sequence.
The Sharks might be without two different avid gamers with shutdown defenceman Marc-Edouard Vlasic listed as day to day with upper-physique harm that sidelined him for recreation three and fourth-line wing Micheal Haley questionable after leaving sport three after blockading a shot with his ankle.
This marks the second year that a Sharks player was suspended for a playoff recreation in opposition to Vegas. Forward Evander Kane used to be suspended for game two final year for a go-check to the head of Pierre-Edouard Bellemare.
