from Shawn Mitchell of Puck-Rakers,
Scott Hartnell knew it.
The veteran Blue Jacket, whistled for a tripping penalty against Montreal Canadians star P.K. Subban with 2:34 remaining in a tie game, could sense it coming.
“They have one of the best power plays in the league,” Hartnell said. “Sometimes, when you’re sitting in the box you know they’re going to score. You have a feeling that something bad is going to happen.”
It did....
“I don’t know if he was trying to draw a penalty, but he did a pretty good job of selling it,” Hartnell said of the 6-foot, 210-pound Subban.
“At that time of the game, a call like that screws us, basically,” Hartnell said. “I have to take the onus.”
His coach did that for him.
“We played our ass off tonight,” Jackets coach John Tortorella said. “It’s sloppiness with the penalty. Total sloppiness and it cost us.”
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