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Zach Sill to Have Player Safety Hearing for McQuaid hit

The NHL announced Wednesday that Washington Capitals forward Zach Sill will have a hearing with the NHL’s Department of Player Safety for a boarding infraction against Boston Bruins defenseman Adam McQuaid.

The hit happened in a game on Tuesday and appeared to briefly leave McQuaid unconscious. He had to be helped from the ice by trainers and teammates and regaining consciousness. No penalty was called on the play, though that will not effect any potential suspension for Sill.

Later in the game Boston announced that they had diagnosed McQuaid with an upper-body injury and that he wouldn’t return. There has been no update on his status at this point.

At Sill’s hearing, he’ll have the advantage of not have a history of suspensions for the league to draw on in sentencing, but with McQuaid getting injured on the play, the likelihood of a longer suspension increases.

Tuesday’s game was just Sill’s fourth NHL game of the season. He has no points on the year. He’s spent the majority of the year playing for the Hersey Bears in the AHL, where he has two goals and nine points through 30 games.

Sill signed with Washington as a free agent in the summer. He finished last season as a part of the Toronto Maple Leafs after he was sent there as a part of the trade that sent Daniel Winnik to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Video: Kasperi Kapanen Scores Finland’s Golden Goal

Team Finland won gold at the 2016 World Junior Championships in dramatic fashion. Finland took a late lead in the third period on a goal by captain Mikko Rantanen. Then they gave up a goal to Russia with 9.6 second left in the game, sending it to overtime. It only took 1:33 of 4-on-4 overtime for Kasperi Kapanen to decide the game though.

Kapanen started the puck out from behind the goal line, then took a hard pivot that lost Flyers 1st round draft pick Ivan Provorov, made Russian goaltender Alexander Georgiev overcommit to Kapanen’s attack and allowed him to go hard around the net to put a wrap around attempt and win the game.

Pop the champagne. It’s a holiday in Finland on Wednesday and no one has to work.

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It was an overdue goal for Kapanen who played very well, fired the puck constantly, but only managed a total of two goals in the entire tournament.

It was a goal that made the stadium erupt, including Finnish hockey legends Teemu Selanne and Saku Koivu, both of whom had their numbers retired with the national team during the tournament.

This was a gold medal game worth repeat viewing. Both teams played great and it was one of the more exciting gold medal matches in recent years.

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UPDATE:
Watch the goal called in Finnish, courtesy of Robert Söderlind.

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