Team to Appeal After Player Receives Ridiculous Suspension for Contact with Official
There's no doubt contact with the official was made, but it wasn't much, and the resulting suspension understandably has the player and his team upset.
Anton Lundmark of Tingsryd has been suspended for three games after he was skating into the offensive zone and tripped an official from behind. It certainly didn't seem intentional, and his skate seemed to barely graze the skate of the referee. Here's a look. You can tell the referee was upset by what happened.
"Fredrik Rönnberg was backing up in the outer zone when Anton Lundmark went down to the short side and hit and fell Fredrik Rönnberg from behind. He fell helplessly to the ice with no chance to protect himself or mitigate the fall." - HockeyAllsvenskan Disciplinary Committee
Lundmark's coach calls the situation unacceptable.
"I can barely find the words. It's a horrible sentence we got. This is so damn bad and I will not accept it." - Arto Miettinen, Tingsryd head coach
The team is appealing the verdict. No word on when a decision might come. European leagues adopted a zero tolerance policy for abuse of officials a few years ago. However, this just seems heavy-handed.
Source: AftonBladet
| POLL | ||
Was the three game suspension justified? | ||
| Yes, it was dangerous | 54 | 22.7 % |
| No, this is an accident | 134 | 56.3 % |
| Maybe one game, but three? C'mon | 36 | 15.1 % |
| Not sure | 14 | 5.9 % |
| List of polls | ||
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