Mikhail Grabovski might get a call from the NHL’s department of player safety after his boarding major and game misconduct late in the first period on Sunday.
Grabovski is an unlikely Islander to face a possible suspension, but his dangerous hit that knocked Canucks captain Henrik Sedin from the 2-1 shootout loss was hard to argue against.
“I didn’t see [Grabovski] at all,” Sedin said. “I knew someone was there but I thought I had somehow turned away from it, so I did not expect him to hit me at that point.”
Sedin left the game and said he might be out for a while, but “we are not talking weeks, I’m hoping,” he said.