The NHL’s Department of Player Safety has suspended Minnesota Wild forward and assistant captain Marcus Foligno for two games for kneeing Winnipeg Jets forward Adam Lowry after an altercation during Tuesday’s contest. Foligno will miss the Wild’s upcoming homestand, including Saturday’s game against the Carolina Hurricanes and Monday’s game against the Detroit Red Wings.
Foligno will be eligible to return, coincidentally enough, in a rematch against the Jets back up at the Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg on Wednesday, February 16th.
Foligno’s two-game suspension could have been a lot longer had the NHL DOPS not accepted Moose’s assertion that the knee to the head was not, according to the NHL’s explanatory video, “a violent knee strike, or an exceptionally forceful blow.