When Oilers forward Josh Archibald took out Logan Stanley‘s knees last night I was sitting high above the action in the pressbox and thought it was a pretty dangerous play and pretty needless given his team was up 4-1.
Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)
Of course he would go to the sin bin (for tripping of all things) to think about his action which was followed by Mathieu Perreault scoring to make it 4-2 and then the Jets tied it up a few minutes later and eventually won the game in OT to give themselves a 3-0 series lead.
Today the NHL announced that Archibald would be suspended for one game. Here was their explanation:
Jets and Oilers sans Archibald will play game 4 tonight at 8:45 PM.
