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Trotz hints National Hockey League favoured Penguins with Orpik suspension
Orpik was suspended Sunday night for his headshot to Penguins defenceman Olli Maatta early in Game 2 Saturday.
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The Penguins will try to keep their home-ice edge when they host the Capitals on Monday in Game 3 as consensus -140 betting favorites (bet $140 to win $100) at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark. Orpik was assessed a minor penalty for interference. In the NHL’s announcement of the suspension, the league said Orpik’s hit came a full second after Maatta had released the puck and Maatta was not eligible to be checked at that point.
Pittsburgh secured a much-needed split in Washington, but can the momentum carry over to the Consol Energy Center for tonight’s Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals?
“It does feel a little bit different”, said Fehr, a forward who played nine seasons for the Capitals before joining the Penguins as a free agent this offseason.
“They’ve got a good deep defensive corps”, he said.
Still, the Capitals managed to shut down Pittsburgh’s power play yet again.
“We just adjusted, and we’ll do the same thing”, Trotz said.
And now it’s official: two games into this best-of-seven second-round series between the Penguins and the Capitals, the war of words has officially started.
David Backes’ overtime victor on the power play lifted the Blues to a win on Sunday night.
“The team obviously that loses the game, I think always knows how important the next one is and not to lose two in a row”, NY captain John Tavares said.
“It was a bad hit”, Orpik said. “It’s a split-second decision you make and I just gotta live with it”.
Orpik called the decision “fair” while speaking to reporters following Washington’s morning skate on Monday ahead of Game 3.
“If you know anything about Brooks, he plays hard, he plays clean”, said Capitals coach Barry Trotz. “We’re going to play the game we’ve tried to play here for four or five months now”. “Now we gave ourselves a chance and we’re excited to get back home”.
The reasoning adds that Orpik had been on Maatta from the moment he received the pass from Bonino, and even adjusted his course in order to ensure contact on the play – despite knowing that Maatta was no longer in possession of the puck.
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“I’m disappointed, but I’m not surprised based on who we’re playing and all that”, Trotz said. And then there is the fact that Orpik has been suspended twice in his National Hockey League career while Bellemare had no prior history of discipline. He can muscle bodies out of the front of the net and has learned a lot from former Penguin Brooks Orpik, who he’s partnered with the past two seasons.