Chara escapes discipline for Pacioretty hit
Posted March 9, 2011 4:25 pm.
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THE CANADIAN PRESS
BROSSARD, Que. — Boston’s Zdeno Chara will face no further league discipline for the hit that hospitalized Montreal Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty.
NHL senior vice-president Mike Murphy says the Chara hit “was a hockey play that resulted in an injury because of the player colliding with the stanchion and then the ice surface.”
Added Murphy: “After a thorough review of the video I can find no basis to impose supplemental discipline.”
Pacioretty remains in hospital with a severe concussion and a fractured vertebra.
Murphy said he took into consideration that Chara has not been involved in a supplemental discipline incident during his 13-year NHL career.
