You know, if the Caps are going to get called for chintzy slashes to go two men down, Austin Matthews needed to go for the simulated sex act he performed on the guy on the ice right before the last goal. This is just blatant.
Horseshit of the highest order. Backstrom isn't in the crease, any contact he made was caused by the defender.
Of course, we should not be surprised by his outcome, really.
Orpik hits him literally anywhere else (maybe not the face) nobody bats an eyelash and play carries on. Even if somebody loses a finger, as we've seen...Oh, look. Stupid pointless offsides review of a play too close to call in real time takes away a goal in Boston.
Yay!
He's either right, has been set up, or is carrying water for team management (provided, of course that they would actually want him to be carrying this particular water for... reasons).
I genuinely don't know which is more plausible.
Sometimes bad things happen to jerks and their Mercedes. Things can go horribly and expensively wrong under the hood. Maybe someone puts a wide scratch down it next fall, who knows?