Watch the clip below. I don't know how the ref missed the hit and the penalty that should have been called. Heck he was right there and it looks like he even flinches when the hit occurs. Maybe he swallowed his whistle.
Raffi Torres of the Phoenix Coyotes will not play in Thursday's Game 4 of their Western Conference quarterfinal series against the Chicago Blackhawks.
On Friday, we'll find out when he'll play again in this postseason, if at all.
Torres was due to have an in-person disciplinary hearing with the NHL before Game 4, which has typically meant a minimum of a five-game suspension, for his hit on Marian Hossa on Tuesday night; a hit that made principal contact with the head, and sent Hossa out on a stretcher and to the hospital.
But Torres and the NHLPA, in a peculiar move, deferred the hearing until after Game 4, opting to be "suspended indefinitely" pending the hearing.
From the NHL:
Phoenix Coyotes forward Raffi Torres has been suspended indefinitely, pending an in-person hearing Friday, April 20, the National Hockey League's Department of Player Safety announced today. The hearing, which had been planned for today, was deferred at the request of the player and the National Hockey League Players' Association.
The hearing will be convened at the NHL's New York office for a hit Torres delivered to Chicago forward Marian Hossa 12:42 into the first period of Game 3 of the teams' Western Conference Quarterfinal series in Chicago on Tuesday, April 17.
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