The Maple Leafs’ destruction of the Lightning on Monday evening obtained ugly and bloody within the third interval.
With Toronto effectively on its solution to a 5-0 win in Recreation 1 of the NHL playoff first-round sequence, a line brawl broke out with Tampa Bay clearly annoyed by the one-sided affair.
Corey Perry and Patrick Maroon have been attempting to bait Wayne Simmonds right into a combat; Simmonds wasn’t having it. However Simmonds appeared to lastly have sufficient as he later put his arms on Victor Hedman, which sparked a melee between all of the gamers on the ice, with sticks and gloves strewn about.
Lightning defenseman Jan Rutta appeared to get the worst of it, as his head was busted open after some blows from Morgan Reilly.
Perry was fined $2,500 by the NHL on Tuesday for unsportsmanlike conduct, whereas Maroon and Simmonds have been fined $2,250.
“I assumed we dealt with their physicality effectively,” Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe stated, through USA In the present day, “each in making performs and protecting the puck shifting and never getting rattled by it, after which simply standing our floor when the nonsense begins late within the third.”
Earlier than the sequence began, Keefe stated he was anticipating the matchup to be “borderline violent.”
Andrei Vasilevskiy, the reigning Conn Smythe winner for the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Lightning, allowed 5 targets on 33 photographs within the loss. Recreation 2 is ready for Wednesday evening in Toronto.
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