There’s absolutely no evidence Nazem Kadri has learned his lesson from previous suspensions. So don't expect him to play again in the first round (reporterchris)
BOSTON — It won’t take long for the NHL’s Department of Player Safety to write the script for
If you feel like history keeps repeating itself in these Bruins-Leafs series, you’re not imagining it. Each of his previous four career suspensions involved a blow to another player’s head — either with his stick, arm or posterior. Tommy Wingels was down in a prone position when Kadri responded to a hit on linemate Mitch Marner in Game 1 of last year’s series by leaping toward the Bruins forward and driving him into the boards.
One of the few minors given out was a ticky-tack hooking call on Kadri in the second period. When it was killed off, he raced back into the Leafs’ end and was sent flying by DeBrusk after a knee-on-knee hit."We thought it was [knee-on-knee]," said Leafs centre John Tavares. It happened innocently enough, with DeBrusk driving Patrick Marleau into the rounded glass at the end of Boston’s bench on a clean hit. Kadri skated immediately toward the Bruins player and changed the position of his stick before slamming it into the side of DeBrusk’s helmet, earning a cross-checking major, game misconduct and a whole lot more trouble.
But the positive aspects of Kadri’s game — his competitive, agitating side and ability to be a secondary scorer — will be missed dearly.Still,there was no excuse for his poor decision-making.
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