Ottawa Senators forward Alexandre Burrows was offered an in-person hearing with the NHL’s department of player safety on Wednesday, which means he could be suspended more than five games for Tuesday’s vicious-looking infraction against New Jersey Devils winger Taylor Hall.
Burrows declined the in-person meeting, opting instead to conduct the hearing via the phone on Wednesday afternoon.
Midway through the second period, Burrows went after Hall, dragging him down and kneeing him in the head after Hall appeared to be leaving a scrum on the ice. (Watch the incident at the top of this post.) He was issued two separate penalties — two minutes for cross-checking, two minutes for roughing — and was not ejected from the game.
“He punched me in the back of the head like 10 times,” Hall told Devils reporter Amanda Stein after the game. “He kind of lost his mind.”
Hall remained in the game, an eventual 5-3 loss to the Senators, and even went on to score his 19th goal of the season on the ensuing power play.
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