Leafs’ Max Domi fined $5K for boarding Panthers captain Barkov as Game 4 ended

Toronto Maple Leafs guardant Max Domi was fined $5,000 connected Monday for boarding Florida Panthers skipper Aleksander Barkov astatine the extremity of Game 4 of their second-round playoff series.

The deed came conscionable arsenic the last horn sounded successful Florida’s 2-0 triumph connected Sunday.

Domi shoved Barkov from behind, sending him headfirst into the boards.

He past received a insignificant punishment for boarding, and the play sparked aggregate scrums earlier officials intervened.

Despite the hit, Barkov got retired of the scrum unscathed, and Florida’s triumph tied the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal astatine 2 games apiece.

Panthers defenseman Dmitry Kulikov, who appeared to drawback winger Mitch Marner with an elbow to the caput earlier successful Game 4, was not penalized for that play, which near Maple Leafs caput manager Craig Berube surprised.

“I thought that (play) was mode worse,” Berube told reporters pursuing Game 4.

Kulikov’s deed wasn’t the archetypal elbowing incidental of the series.

In Game 1, Florida guardant Sam Bennett elbowed Leafs goalie Anthony Stolarz successful the caput moments earlier Stolarz exited with an injury. The goaltender was hospitalized aft the crippled and has not resumed skating.

Multiple sports outlets study that Stolarz is improbable to instrumentality to the series, particularly fixed Joseph Woll’s beardown show successful Game 4, wherever helium stopped 35 of 37 shots against the Panthers.

Game 5 is acceptable for 7 p.m. Wednesday arsenic the bid heads backmost to Toronto.

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