At 13:47 of the third period in Thursday night's game of the Ottawa Senators versus the Carolina Hurricanes, Ottawa's Nick Foligno collides with Carolina's Patrick Dwyer in open ice, sending Dwyer spinning and down to the ice.
No penalty is called on the play, and Dwyer immediately gets to his feet, makes his way to the bench and doesn't miss a shift the rest of the game.
Seems rather harmless, doesn't it? A hard open ice hit that results in no injury is part of the game of hockey and happens hundreds of times throughout the NHL season.
Yet this is not the end of the story.
Enraged that no call was made on the play, the Carolina bench goes wild with the slapping of sticks, and head coach Paul Maurice and associate head coach Ron Francis are furious on the bench.
In an effort to calm the Carolina bench, Ottawa's Milan Michálek is on the receiving end of a make-up call for interference on the very next face-off. Carolina gets a power play, and their first goal of the game is scored.
That should be the end of it. Yet there is still more.
In a post-game interview, Maurice was both sarcastic and ...
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Nick Foligno’s Open Ice Hit on Patrick Dwyer: Much Ado About Nothing
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