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Malkin suspended 4 video games after pass-take a look at (0: 40)
Evgeni Malkin will motivate a four-game suspension after a pass-take a look at to the face of the Predators’ Tag Borowiecki. (0: 40)
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Associated Press
Evgeni Malkin has been suspended four video games with out pay for pass-checking Nashville‘s Tag Borowiecki in the face, a valuable blow to the Pittsburgh Penguins as they hope to withhold on to their playoff deliver.
Malkin will pass over upcoming video games against the Unusual York Islanders and Boston Bruins after the NHL’s department of player safety offered the suspension Monday following a disciplinary listening to. In a video explaining the suspension, the league known as Malkin’s pass-take a look at “retaliatory and aggressive.”
Malkin used to be before all the pieces given fully a four-minute double-minor penalty after inserting Borowiecki in the mouth with his stick on the stay of the second length Sunday.
“It be an emotional game out there,” coach Mike Sullivan urged journalists after the game. “It be bodily, and as soon as in a while that stuff happens. It used to be a bodily game, especially on the rep fronts in those areas where that took situation.
“Clearly, we create not need our most intelligent gamers in the penalty box, but these guys are competitive guys and they ward off. We would settle they be on the ice. They give us an even bigger likelihood when they’re on the ice, for certain. But some of the issues we love about Geno is how competitive he is, and so in the event you gain an emotional game love the game we had on the present time, those issues happen.”
This is Malkin’s second suspension after a one-game ban for high-sticking in 2019. He has been fined three times. This suspension charges him $190,000 in salary.
He’s eligible to return April 23 versus Detroit.
The Penguins beat the Predators in beyond regular time to snap a four-game skid. They’ve misplaced seven of their final 10 video games and are in misfortune of falling out of third situation in the Metropolitan Division and into an Jap Convention wild-card situation.
Malkin missed the first 34 video games of the season rehabbing from knee surgery. Since making his season debut Jan. 11, the 35-365 days-stale Russian heart has been some degree-a-game player with 17 desires and 20 assists in 37 video games.
