Brad Marchand Fined $5,000 For Cross-Checking Flyers’ MacDonald
The NHL’s Department of Player Safety Boston’s Brad Marchand fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for cross-checking Philadelphia’s Andrew MacDonald.
With 53 seconds left in the second period, MacDonald appeared to get away with a cross-check of his own as he shoved Marchand into the boards. But Marchand took it a step further by retaliating after MacDonald fell to the ice, driving his stick into MacDonald’s face and/or chin area.
God dammit, Marchand pic.twitter.com/6CNdYeDEle
— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) April 1, 2018
Marchand was assessed a cross-checking minor on the play.
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The winger was also fined $2,000 earlier this season for diving/embellishment against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Most notably, Marchand earned a five-game suspension for throwing an elbow to the back of the head of the Devils’ Marcus Johansson, who just recently returned after lingering concussion symptoms.
He fortunately avoids a suspension this time, but the league certainly took notice of the dangerous nature of his cross-check on MacDonald.
