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Burrows fined $2,500 for comments
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TORONTO -- Vancouver Canucks left winger Alex Burrows was fined $2,500 by the NHL on Wednesday, two days after accusing referee Stephane Auger of targeting him in a loss to the Nashville Predators.
During the third period of Vancouver's 3-2 loss to Nashville on Monday night, Auger assessed Burrows minor penalties for diving, interference and unsportsmanlike conduct.
After the game, Burrows told the media: "It was personal. It started in warmup before the anthem. The ref [Auger] came over to me and said I made him look bad in Nashville on the [Jerred] Smithson hit [during a game Dec. 8]. He said he was going to get me back tonight and he did his job in the third ..."
Burrows said his teammates "are battling hard for 60 minutes to win a hockey game because every two points are so huge, so important, and because of a guy's ego it just blows everything out of proportion and they're making bad calls and the fans are paying for it and we're paying for it. I think he [Auger] should sit out the rest of the year making calls like that."
The NHL said Burrow's comments were detrimental to the league and the game.
"The National Hockey League will not tolerate the personal nature of the comments Mr. Burrows directed at Referee Auger or the fact that he brought into question the integrity of both the official and the game," said Colin Campbell, the NHL's senior executive vice president of hockey operations
"We have determined that Mr. Burrows' account of Referee Auger's comments to him before the game, and specifically Burrows' suggestion that these comments indicated bias against the player or the Vancouver team, cannot be substantiated. While Referee Auger engaged the player in a brief conversation prior to the opening faceoff, I firmly believe that nothing inappropriate was said and that Referee Auger's intentions were beyond reproach."
No discipline was levied on Auger, who was working Wednesday night, a source said ESPN.com's Pierre LeBrun. NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell spoke with each of the parties separately Tuesday night.
Smithson received a major and game misconduct penalty for charging Burrows in that game, but the call was later overturned by the league because it said Burrows took a dive.
The disputed interference penalty on Burrows ended a Vancouver power play after just 4 seconds, and a penalty on Henrik Sedin left the Canucks short a man before Weber's 4-on-3 goal.
An unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and 10-minute misconduct followed for Burrows with 4 seconds left.
I think he should not have to pay that fine, because the ref was pissed at him and got him back. Tit for Tat bullcrap.
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TORONTO -- Vancouver Canucks left winger Alex Burrows was fined $2,500 by the NHL on Wednesday, two days after accusing referee Stephane Auger of targeting him in a loss to the Nashville Predators.
During the third period of Vancouver's 3-2 loss to Nashville on Monday night, Auger assessed Burrows minor penalties for diving, interference and unsportsmanlike conduct.
After the game, Burrows told the media: "It was personal. It started in warmup before the anthem. The ref [Auger] came over to me and said I made him look bad in Nashville on the [Jerred] Smithson hit [during a game Dec. 8]. He said he was going to get me back tonight and he did his job in the third ..."
Burrows said his teammates "are battling hard for 60 minutes to win a hockey game because every two points are so huge, so important, and because of a guy's ego it just blows everything out of proportion and they're making bad calls and the fans are paying for it and we're paying for it. I think he [Auger] should sit out the rest of the year making calls like that."
The NHL said Burrow's comments were detrimental to the league and the game.
"The National Hockey League will not tolerate the personal nature of the comments Mr. Burrows directed at Referee Auger or the fact that he brought into question the integrity of both the official and the game," said Colin Campbell, the NHL's senior executive vice president of hockey operations
"We have determined that Mr. Burrows' account of Referee Auger's comments to him before the game, and specifically Burrows' suggestion that these comments indicated bias against the player or the Vancouver team, cannot be substantiated. While Referee Auger engaged the player in a brief conversation prior to the opening faceoff, I firmly believe that nothing inappropriate was said and that Referee Auger's intentions were beyond reproach."
No discipline was levied on Auger, who was working Wednesday night, a source said ESPN.com's Pierre LeBrun. NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell spoke with each of the parties separately Tuesday night.
Smithson received a major and game misconduct penalty for charging Burrows in that game, but the call was later overturned by the league because it said Burrows took a dive.
The disputed interference penalty on Burrows ended a Vancouver power play after just 4 seconds, and a penalty on Henrik Sedin left the Canucks short a man before Weber's 4-on-3 goal.
An unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and 10-minute misconduct followed for Burrows with 4 seconds left.
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I think he should not have to pay that fine, because the ref was pissed at him and got him back. Tit for Tat bullcrap.
