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Cody McLeod and Gabriel Landeskog fined for Saturday end of game actions

Cody McLeod and Gabriel Landeskog fined for Saturday end of game actions

Colorado’s Patrick Roy can be a tough coach to deal with at times with his love of ‘old time’ type hockey. This was on display Saturday evening when the Avs pummeled the Minnesota Wild (literally) after Minnesota beat down Colorado in a 3-1 victory.

And Tuesday, the players who were involved in the fracas for Colorado were fined. Avs enforcer Cody McLeod, who Roy put on the ice for really no good reason at the end of the game, and captain Gabriel Landeskog, who was given a 10-minute misconduct, were both fined.

The NHL’s reasoning on McLeod:

McLeod has been fined $3,091.40 for entering the game on a legal line change for the purpose of starting an altercation with 8.1 seconds remaining in regulation. Directly off a face-off at center ice, McLeod launched into a bodycheck against Minnesota center Mikael Granlund and then engaged in a fight with Wild forward Charlie Coyle. McLeod was assessed a minor penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct, a major penalty for fighting and a misconduct penalty.

The League on Landeskog:

Landeskog has been fined $5,000 for throwing a punch at Minnesota forward Mikko Koivu while both players were on their respective benches with 3.3 seconds remaining in regulation. Landeskog was assessed a misconduct penalty. 

Here is the video of what happened:

Said Minnesota coach Mike Yeo following the game:

“That’s garbage is what it is,” Yeo said of McLeod’s antics. “You feel it was going that way all game long. They were obviously very emotional all game long. In an emotional type of game, we did a good job of keeping our focus and I really think that was the difference in the end.” 

Wrote Denver post scribe Terry Frei:

The game was over, no point was made, and it just added to rather than mitigated the Avalanche embarrassment.

Agreed. What was the point? And now the NHL has stepped in, at least with some level of discipline ... for the players.

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