Ben Eager Sucker Punch Helps Bury Thrashers

by Adam Gretz

Filed under: Maple Leafs, Thrashers, NHL Videos, NHL Discipline

With one stupid sucker punch to the face of Toronto's Colby Armstrong, Atlanta Thrashers forward Ben Eager helped to turn a run-of-the-mill blowout into one of the biggest and most lopsided routs of the NHL season (a 9-3 Toronto win). Late in the second period of Friday's game, with Atlanta already in a 5-1 hole, Eager took it upon himself to start some fisticuffs when he blindsided Armstrong in the corner with a punch during a scrum, leading to total mayhem on the scoreboard.

Eager received a match penalty for his foolishness, and gave Toronto an extended power play it did not waste. The Maple Leafs scored three goals in the first two minutes of the major penalty, and ended up filling the back of the net four times (teams can score as many times as possible during a major penalty) before it finally expired. In the end, Toronto managed to get Eager and the Thrashers back in the best possible way: Complete and total embarrassment on the scoreboard.

Check out Eager's punch, and then try to determine what -- if anything -- the NHL does in the form of supplemental discipline...

 

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Source: http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2011/01/07/ben-eager-sucker-punch-helps-bury-thrashers/

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