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Nazem Kadri's eight-game suspension was upheld by a neutral arbitrator, the NHL and the players' association announced Tuesday.

The Colorado Avalanche forward received an eight-game ban after a hit to the head of St. Louis Blues defenseman Justin Faulk in Game 2 of the club's first-round series. It's the sixth suspension of Kadri's career.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman upheld the Department of Player Safety's ruling May 31, prompting the appeal to a neutral arbitrator.

Kadri is eligible to return to Colorado's lineup no sooner than a potential Game 7 versus the Vegas Golden Knights. The series is tied 2-2 with Game 5 scheduled for Tuesday night.
 
Boston Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy has been fined $25,000 for criticizing officials after Game 5 versus the New York Islanders on Monday night, the league announced.

Cassidy implied his second-round opponent gets preferential treatment from the officiating crew.

"I think they sell a narrative over there that it's more like the New York Saints, not the New York Islanders. They play hard, they play the right way, but I feel we're the same way. And the exact calls that are getting called on us do not get called on them, and I don't know why," Cassidy said after the loss.

"Maybe we need to sell them more, flop, but that's not us," he added. "You'd just hope they see them. I mean the same calls go against us. It's not like I'm sitting there going 'well every call against us sucks,' it's not true.

"... They need to be penalized on those plays. They've done a great job selling that narrative that they're clean. ... They commit as many infractions as we do, trust me. It's just a matter of calling them. That's the part that I guess gets frustrating but you play through it."

Boston was penalized four times in the contest, and New York made the most of its opportunities while converting three power-play tallies to take a 3-2 series lead. The Bruins were given two-man advantages in the game.

After taking the hit to his wallet, Cassidy stated he believes what he said was fair.

"We're told before we have to keep our comments civil. I thought it was. They didn't see it that way," the coach said Tuesday, per The Athletic's Fluto Shinzawa.

Islanders head coach Barry Trotz was also critical of the officiating after Game 4.

Game 6 is slated for Wednesday in New York.
 
Mark Shiefele (I don't care how it's spelled.. I'd just assume spell it Shitflea) is turning into a really big douche. Somehow this guy still thinks he's the victim?

Hope game 1 next season is against Montreal so he can watch that from the press box too.
 
Turbo said:
Mark Shiefele (I don't care how it's spelled.. I'd just assume spell it Shitflea) is turning into a really big douche. Somehow this guy still thinks he's the victim?

Hope game 1 next season is against Montreal so he can watch that from the press box too.
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But he has another suspension game to serve which carries over to next season doesn't he?
 
Turbo said:
Mark Shiefele (I don't care how it's spelled.. I'd just assume spell it Shitflea) is turning into a really big douche. Somehow this guy still thinks he's the victim?

Hope game 1 next season is against Montreal so he can watch that from the press box too.
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Yeah I'm disappointed by his comments because I am a fan of his (or used to?) 😕 but the real doucehebag to me is Winnipeg's head coach Paul Maurice. Talk about classless and unprofessional. Some of the things he said since the incident and blatantly refusing to shake hands 🤝 to the players after game 4 and retreat to the locker room instead is not cool in the slightest. 😒
 
Winnipeg Jets pivot Mark Scheifele believes the Department of Player Safety cost him a chance to compete with his teammates during their second-round sweep to the Montreal Canadiens.

"I still believe (the suspension) was excessive," Scheifele told reporters Wednesday. "They knock me out of the series, I don't even get a chance to play with my teammates and battle with my teammates in the series. For a guy with a clean record ... I'm just gonna stop talking before I get fined or something like that so I'll just leave it as it is."

He added that the league did his opponent's job of shutting him down for the series.

"Obviously, it's crushing that my season was ended by that and I wasn't able to play in this series," Scheifele said. "I thought I was going to be tried to be shut down by Phillip Danault, but it was the Department of Player Safety that shut me down. So that definitely sucks."

Scheifele was suspended four games for charging Montreal's Jake Evans at the end of Game 1. Evans suffered a concussion on the play.

The 28-year-old will miss the 2021-22 regular-season opener to serve the remainder of the suspension.

The Department of Player Safety wasn't Scheifele's only target during the press conference, as he also took aim at the Winnipeg media for discounting the team earlier in the year.

"We were written off from Day 1 of the season and we proved people wrong all season long," Scheifele said, according to The Athletic's Murat Ates. "We go through that slide towards the end of the year and we were written off again ... We don't get a lot of respect in the grand scheme of things."

The Jets finished third in the North Division with 63 points before sweeping the Edmonton Oilers in Round 1.
 
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