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.





Lundmark's coach calls the situation unacceptable.


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