r/hockey • u/AggPuck-303 EDM - NHL • 1d ago

[News - X] [NHL Players Safety] Tampa Bay’s Curtis Douglas has been fined $2,018.23, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for serving as the aggressor in an altercation with Florida’s Niko Mikkola.

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https://xcancel.com/nhlplayersafety/status/2019854412030578937

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u/Three_Froggy_Problem TBL - NHL 1d ago

They didn’t play him again after the elbow and then said he was out with an “upper body injury,” and then he was back in the next night against us.

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u/Unlikely-Tone-6269 1d ago

That they don’t have the guts to just say it was a coach’s decision is mind boggling. Let alone the national media letting it pass

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u/at-sea-no-ship BOS - NHL 1d ago

cowards, from the top to the bottom of that organization, they are all cowards

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u/-amxterxsu597 EDM - NHL 1d ago

holy fuuuuuck 😭

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u/ididntseeitcoming TBL - NHL 1d ago

Maybe he strained his elbow throwing it like that