With less than five minutes to go in the second period, rookie defenseman Mikhail Sergachev was skating the puck out of the Tampa Bay Lightning zone when Kings forward Dustin Brown collided with him. The main point of contact was knee-to-knee and left the young player sprawled out on the ice.
Brown was issued a five-minute penalty and and a game misconduct. The Lightning did add their fourth goal of the game during the ensuing penalty as Nikita Kucherov scored his 29th goal.
Brown, who has a history of fines for his less than clean play, was recently fined $5,000 for boarding Pittsburgh’s Justin Schultz in January.