Toronto Maple Leafs center Nazem Kadri will have a hearing with the NHL's Department of Player Safety on Friday for a vicious hit he delivered on Tommy Wingels of the Boston Bruins in Game 1 of their Stanley Cup playoff series.
But to hear Kadri describe it, he's a victim of circumstance.
"I certainly wasn't trying to hit him while he was down like that. I was already committed to the hit. If he's still standing up, there isn't anything wrong on that, but he fell," said Kadri, after the Leafs' humbling 5-1 loss to the Bruins on Thursday night in Boston.