{"id":1861824,"date":"2023-02-27T09:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1861824"},"modified":"2023-02-27T09:05:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:05:52","slug":"watch-nhl-ref-takes-down-bruins-star-leaves-him-flat-on-his-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-nhl-ref-takes-down-bruins-star-leaves-him-flat-on-his-back\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: NHL Ref Takes Down Bruins Star, Leaves Him Flat On His Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-nhl-ref-takes-down-bruins-star-leaves-him-flat-on-his-back%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1861824&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A referee from the NHL took down one the game&#8217;s biggest stars on Sunday night, leaving him flat on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s game against Vancouver Canucks was Brad Marchand from the Boston Bruins. He was skating from behind the net with the puck. When referee Wes McCauley, who had played minor league hockey before becoming an NHL ref like his father John (stretched his arm), sent Marchand sprawled on his back.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wes McCauley defeats Brad Marchand\ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23 <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C6TJB0umCx\">pic.twitter.com\/C6TJB0umCx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Everything Hockey (@EHClothing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EHClothing\/status\/1629662818302672896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big hit by Wes McCauley to knock Brad Marchand off the puck in the corner<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLBruins?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NHLBruins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CJQxrdeTMS\">pic.twitter.com\/CJQxrdeTMS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hockey Daily 365 l NHL Highlights (@HockeyDaily365) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HockeyDaily365\/status\/1629660722887118850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only two days before, on Friday the NHL Department of Player Safety fined Marchand $5,000 after he slew-footed the Seattle Kraken&#8217;s Oliver Bjorkstrand in Thursday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boston&#8217;s Brad Marchand has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for a dangerous trip on Seattle&#8217;s Oliver Bjorkstrand.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety\/status\/1629240086062669824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In November 2021, Marchand slew-footed the Canucks&#8217; Oliver Ekman-Larsson, which prompted the NHL to suspend him for three games.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Marchand was fined $10,000 for tripping the Detroit Red Wings&#8217; Niklas Kronwall and in 2011 he was fined $2,500 for slew-footing Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Matt Niskanen.<\/p>\n<p>Marchand came back this season after off-season hip surgery on both hips. His first full season in the NHL came in 2010-11, when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1972. He had 41 points that season, then had a spectacular playoff run, scoring 11 goals in 25 games, a rookie playoff record for the team. In Game 7 of the finals against the Vancouver Canucks, Marchand had two goals and an assist as the Bruins won 4-0.<\/p>\n<p>He scored 37 goals, which ranked sixth in the NHL, in 2015-16, then led and led the Bruins in scoring with 85 points in each of the next two seasons before scoring 100 points in 2018-19. In the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs, he scored 23 points before the Bruins lost the seventh game to the St. Louis Blues.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday&#8217;s game, Bruin&#8217;s goalie Linus Ullmark, who is well on his way to winning the Vezina Trophy as the league&#8217;s best goaltender, scored an empty-net goal.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A tendy shot to CELLY \ud83d\udcaf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mt5BBOtIJa\">pic.twitter.com\/Mt5BBOtIJa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLBruins\/status\/1629674547124514816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only goalies to score more than one goal are Ron Hextall, who scored one in the regular season and one in the playoffs, and Martin Brodeur, who scored two in the regular season and one in the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An NHL referee took down one of the games\u2019 biggest stars Sunday night, leaving him flat on his back on the ice. In Sunday\u2019s game against the Vancouver Canucks, Brad Marchand of the red-hot Boston Bruins, who have won six straight games and lead the league with 93 points, was skating from behind his own &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1861827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[19821,8485,7028,7596,5229,4259,4516],"class_list":["post-1861824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-bruins","tag-flat","tag-leaves","tag-nhl","tag-star","tag-takes","tag-watch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1861827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}