Tampa Bay Lightning defenceman Mikhail Sergachev has been fined fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, for roughing Conor Garland during the game against the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night.
Tampa Bay’s Mikhail Sergachev has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Roughing Vancouver’s Conor Garland.
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The incident occurred with 41 seconds left in the third period, when Garland tried to poke Andrei Vasilevskiy, after he had already covered the puck, and Sergachev cleared him out with a punch right into the face.