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NHL on Monday handed out a punishment after Florida Panther And the rivalry in the Tampa -Bay Lightanier was revealed on the step during their last pre -season game.
Forward Lightning Scott Saburin was suspended for four games, and the defender JJ Moser received a ban on two games for his actions in the game on Saturday evening. The NHL also fined Lightning for $ 100,000, and the head coach John Cooper was fined $ 25,000.
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The right wing of Tampa Bay Lightning Scott Saburin (46) and Florida Panthers Aaron Ecblad, on the right, trading in the first period of the pre -season game of NHL hockey, Saturday, October 4, 2025, in Sanraise, Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sweet)
In a chaotic match of judges, it calls 65 fines in 312 minutes, including 13 illegal percentes. Tampa Bay The seven in the game and six were called in Florida. Panthers received 17 chances on Power-Play, according to the NHL.
The players began their march in the garbage bucket when Saburin went after the star of Aaron Ekblad. Saburin received a serious fine after the game of only 19 seconds.
The game is from there when the judges tried to cope with control. The eighth goal of Florida was canceled after the defender Panther Niko Mikkol attributed help. He was already expelled earlier in the third period.
The right wing Tampa Bay Lightning Scott Saburin (46) and Florida Panthers -Provincial Aaron Ekblad (5) fight during the first period of the pre -season game in the NHL, Saturday, October 4, 2025, in Sanraice, Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sweet)
Florida won the game, 7-0. Chaos followed after two teams calculated 49 fines and 186 minutes in the previous pre -season competition.
“I think that anyone who was part of this rivalry would probably have looked on this score and, and B, I could not believe that it took so long that something like this happened,” Cooper said on Saturday.
Panther -Formald Evan Rodriguez added that the game “by the end of this became stupid.”
“It was not really hockey there,” he added.
Florida defender Panthers Aaron Ekblad (5) and the right wing of Tampa -Bay Scott Saburin (46) fall on ice during the first period of the pre -season game in the NHL hockey, Saturday, October 4, 2025, in Sanrasa, Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sweet)
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It seemed to have snacks for bringing a regular season. Florida and Tampa -Bay will play each other four times, starting on November 15.
Florida enters the season as two -time defense Stanley Cup Champions.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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