Video- Backstrom’s Match Penalty

Niklas Backstrom received a match penalty at the end of the game tonight for this cross-check on Rich Peverley.

A match penalty is an automatic suspension until ruled upon, which I am sure will be sometime tomorrow.

Sorry for the quality of the video, if a better one is found, it will be replaced.



Update: Here’s a better video from The Score:



ESPN Boston’s Joe Haggerty reports that Bruins coach Claude Julien isn’t exactly happy with the Capitals’ stick issues:

“The only thing that’s disappointing for me personally is that this is the third time in three games our player has been cross-checked in the face. ... You hope that those things don’t get out of hand,” Bruins coach Claude Julien said. “Somebody else, not us, has to deal with that.”

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