6/10/2023 0 Comments Night slashHis 43 points in the regular season were tied for the most on the team’s blue line. Nurse leads Oilers defensemen in ice time and has four points in 10 games in the playoffs. “That’s the way to answer the bell by him,” Stone said. Stone said Nurse “jumped” Hague instead, but the Knights defenseman still managed to land the first eight punches of the scrap. Knights captain Mark Stone said Hague asked Nurse to fight during the previous faceoff. Nurse went from the point to below the goal line in the offensive zone with 50 seconds left to fight Hague, who was physically engaged with left wing Warren Foegele behind the boards. Coach Jay Woodcroft was also fined $10,000. Nurse’s suspension was automatic for getting an instigator penalty in the final five minutes of regulation. We love the way he plays the game for us.” “(Pietrangelo’s) a pretty honest player every day,” coach Bruce Cassidy said. He tied his career high with 54 points this season while still handling difficult matchups each night. Pietrangelo leads the Knights in ice time in the regular season and postseason. That play led to a scrum that resulted in Kane and right wing Jonathan Marchessault getting misconduct penalties with 3:58 remaining. Kane also sent Pietrangelo hard into the boards in Game 4 on Wednesday three minutes before the slash. Oilers right wing Evander Kane cross-checked Pietrangelo in the face well after time expired in the first period of Monday’s Game 3. Pietrangelo has been on the receiving end of late and aggressive hits in the series. “In this case, the puck has been gone for some time before Pietrangelo chooses to ignore the play, raise his stick and deliver a slash to a vulnerable area of his opponent with sufficient force for supplemental discipline,” the NHL said in its explanation for the suspension. Draisailt said Thursday “it was ugly” but added he was all right. Pietrangelo was given a major penalty and game misconduct on the play, which happened with the Knights trailing 4-1 with 1:27 remaining. He slashed Draisaitl, who leads the NHL in goals and points in the postseason, using his hands away from the puck. Pietrangelo’s suspension is the first of his 15-year NHL career. Every once in a while, stuff like that happens.” “It’s playoff hockey,” defenseman Alec Martinez said Wednesday night. The winner of Game 5 advances 78.9 percent of the time when a series is tied 2-2. 1 defenseman before Friday’s pivotal Game 5 at T-Mobile Arena. Edmonton defenseman Darnell Nurse’s one-game suspension for instigating a fight with defenseman Nic Hague was also upheld. Knights defenseman Alex Pietrangelo was suspended for one game by the NHL’s Department of Player Safety on Thursday for a slash on Oilers center Leon Draisaitl. But it could have a major effect on the rest of the series. The final two minutes of the Golden Knights’ Game 4 loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday didn’t have any impact on the outcome. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP) Vegas Golden Knights and Edmonton Oilers players rough it up during the third period of Game 4 of an NHL hockey second-round playoff series Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Edmonton, Alberta.
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