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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
What he was doing was officiating a game that already had two line brawls, and was in between a hot head in Kane and a guy willing to mix things up in Engelland. Given Kane had already turned back to jaw a couple times, the linesman quite reasonably thought that the third turn would be re-engage again, so he physically restrained Kane. That they tripped is just an inadvertent aspect of this.
Honestly, I'm surprised the league gave him 3. I suspect part of that might be specifically to keep him out of the first two games - both against Vegas - to help keep things calmer.
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Agree about the part about keeping him out for the first two games against Vegas- I still don't like the decision though.
If the refs/linesmans didn't want any further shenanigans this game then blow the play dead and give them each a 10 minute misconduct. Ignoring the ongoing play and skating around chasing two guys trying to restrain them like that just looks silly and ended in a silly result.