In last night’s match up between the New Jersey Devils and the Ottawa Senators, things got a little heated.
With ten minutes left in the second period, Senators forward Alex Burrows took on Devils forward Taylor Hall. Hall attempts to leave a scrum in front of the Senators’ net after it becomes dislodged. Burrows finds him and tackles him to the ice, punching his head repeatedly. Once Hall was leveled, Burrows began kneeing Hall’s head against the ice, with his skate blades flying in the air behind him.
You can see two angles of the play below:
Burrows has been involved in controversy before, having been fined as a member of the Vancouver Canucks in 2010 for alleging that an official had it out for him when he was called for diving, interference, and unsportsmanlike conduct in a game against the Nashville Predators.