Last night in the 1st period of the Jets game against the Bruins Alexander Burmistrov was assessed a two minute minor penalty for an illegal check to the head which he delivered to the Bruins Patrice Bergeron, who has a history of concussions.
In case you missed the play here it is:
While there was some speculation that Burmistrov could be hearing from the Department of Player Safety over the hit Renaud Lavoie of TVA Sports tweeted:
But we also learned this morning from Joe Haggerty of CSN New England that:
Ken Wiebe of the Winnipeg Sun got this reaction from Alexander Burmistrov this morning:
What do you think? Should he have received supplemental discipline or was the two minute penalty sufficient?
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