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The physicality during the third period of Game 2 between the Boston Bruins and Florida Panthers on Wednesday night got the attention of the NHL offices.
TSN's Darren Dreger reported Friday, a few hours before Game 3 at TD Garden, that the league told both teams their Eastern Conference second-round series will be "heavily scrutinized."
Game 2 got out of hand around the midway point of the third period. Pat Maroon and Nick Cousins got into an altercation and were both given 10-minute misconducts. The action only escalated from there as the two teams combined to tally an astounding 136 penalty minutes during the period.
The craziest scene was Bruins forward David Pastrnak and Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk dropping their gloves for a fight at 12:42 of the period. If you made a list of players most likely to fight each other in this series, a Pastrnak-Tkachuk tussle probably would be at the bottom.
It sounds like the league doesn't want chaos to take over Game 3, but that might be tough to prevent because the Bruins fans in attendance are going to be fired up on a Friday night, and Boston likely will want to send a message and show they won't be pushed around. You can bet Pastrnak will receive a raucous ovation if he's in the starting lineup, or whenever he takes his first shift. Tkachuk, of course, will receive plenty of boos from the home crowd.
If the referees call these games tightly and a bunch of penalties are assessed, power plays would be a pivotal factor in the outcome of the series.
The Panthers scored once on six power-play opportunities in Game 2, and they're 1-for-9 in the series overall. The Bruins have failed on all five of their power-play chances in this series so far, and they haven't scored a goal with the man advantage since Game 4 of their first-round series against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Bruins-Panthers series is tied at one win apiece entering Game 3.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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