Duncan Keith Suspended for Striking Charlie Coyle in Face with Stick

March 29th, 2016 by Scott Polacek Leave a reply »

The Minnesota Wild beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-1 on Tuesday, but the loss was only one of the concerns for the defending Stanley Cup champions.

According to Mark Lazerus of the Chicago Sun-Times, the league suspended defenseman Duncan Keith six games, which rules him out of Game 1 of the Blackhawks' conference quarterfinals series. Keith earned the suspension after swinging his stick and making contact with Wild forward Charlie Coyle. The NHL's Department of Player Safety released a video detailing the reason for the punishment:



Keith personally apologized to Coyle for the incident, per Tracey Myers of CSN Chicago:



He earned a 10-minute match penalty for deliberate injury and was ejected. While the Wild didn't score during their five minutes on the power play, they earned the victory against a depleted Chicago team missing Keith and fellow defenseman Brent Seabrook, who was out with an illness.

Lazerus shared Chicago head coach Joel Quenneville's thoughts:



The Blackhawks will miss their star defender, but Lazerus noted rest right before the postseason actually could ...

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