There had been a number of scraps within the Blackhawks-Jets sport Monday, and the friction gave method to a battle between Hawks ahead Drake Caggiula and Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien.
Byfuglien knocked Caggiula to the ice with 13 seconds left in regulation, then pushed him down as he tried to face up, and that led to punches. Byfuglien landed a number of photographs to Caggiula’s head earlier than officers broke them up, and the 2 had been hit with matching five-minute main penalties.
“I don’t love it,” Hawks coach Jeremy Colliton mentioned. “Surprised that we didn’t get a power play out of that one, but [he] seems to be OK, so that’s a positive because he has a big impact on our team.”
While Colliton didn’t just like the double penalty name, it appeared like he additionally wished Caggiula hadn’t taken the bait.
The largest concern with Caggiula is that he simply got here again from a concussion. He suffered one Feb. 27 and missed greater than a month earlier than returning Saturday. This was his second sport again.
“You never want to see him taking hits to the head — anybody for that matter,” Duncan Keith mentioned. “Buff’s a good guy… We don’t ever want to see a player, especially on our team, getting hit in the head like that, but [Caggiula] brings a lot of energy and feistiness to our team and we need that.”
Byfuglien performed for the Hawks from 2005 by ’10, serving to them win a Stanley Cup. They traded him to the Jets (the Thrashers at the moment) within the 2010 offseason.