If you missed the action, Chara laid into Kane pretty hard in the third period.
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Kane didn’t take kindly to that hit, and followed up by tossing a few punches in Chara’s direction. He then tossed Chara down to the ground resulting in a full-on fight between the two.
Here’s what Kane had to say about the hit, via NESN:
At 10:03 a.m. Wednesday morning, Sharks reporter Kevin Kurz tweeted, “Zdeno Chara will not receive any supplementary discipline for his hit of Evander Kane last night … It’s my understanding that the league considered it impossible for Chara to hit Kane through the body without avoiding some head contact due to position Kane was in after he lunged for the puck, which I suspected might be the case.”
“I watched the replay, it looks like he elevates his shoulder into my head. I know he’s a big boy. We’ve seen it throughout the league, looks exactly the same to me. That’s a classic headshot.”
Just a half hour later, Kane tweeted this:
Clearly, Kane didn’t agree with the league’s decision.
