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Altercations: NHL asks CH and Capitals to be more careful
Marc-Olivier Cook
Altercations: NHL asks CH and Capitals to be more careful
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In the Canadiens’ last game against the Capitals, things got a little chippy.

Especially at the end of the second period, when Tom Wilson and Josh Anderson were seen fighting… on the Caps bench.

The images made the rounds on the web:

Things got a bit chippy at the end of the second period, and they also got a bit chippy during the warm-up.

Arber Xhekaj went to send messages to Brandon Duhaime and Tom Wilson during the warm-up…

To keep things from getting out of hand by the end of the series, the league decided to intervene.

How?

By warning both clubs to be more careful during altercations. Clearly, the NHL is not satisfied with what happened in Game 3 of the series against the Caps:

I think it’s funny.

Actually, it’s more ironic than anything else.

Max Lalonde makes a good point on Twitter: the league is asking the Caps and the CH to be careful…. but the NHL isn’t even capable of punishing dangerous hits like it should.

Herein lies the problem:

I can’t wait to see what happens.

There was so much intensity in the last game that we can expect to see the same thing tonight at the Bell Centre… especially if the atmosphere is as supercharged as it was Friday night.

But I’ve got a feeling that leaving the league won’t do much to change the fact that the two clubs seem to hate each other right now. And that promises to be the case for the rest of the series!


Breaking news

– To be continued…

– Lions second round playoff schedule:

– Bon.

– That’s right.

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