Danny Briere received a three game suspension for his cross-check to the head of Frans Nielsen.  It will also cost him $237,804.87 in salary.   Yikes.

"Nielsen called me a few expletive words and didn’t appreciate that I was doing that,” Briere said, “and the face-off before he did the same thing to me – he came over with his stick, had me in a headlock, so I didn’t know what he was doing. I just wanted to keep my hands high and try to protect myself.”

 

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