{"id":376933,"date":"2025-12-28T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376933\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:35:08","slug":"nhl-fines-panthers-anton-lundell-lightnings-scott-sabourin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376933\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL fines Panthers’ Anton Lundell, Lightning’s Scott Sabourin"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The NHL fined Florida<\/a>‘s Anton Lundell<\/a> and Tampa Bay<\/a>‘s Scott Sabourin<\/a> for their actions in Saturday’s game between the Panthers and Lightning, one where the teams combined for the highest penalty total the league has seen since 2011.<\/p>\n

Lundell was fined $5,000 for high-sticking Tampa Bay forward Jake Guentzel<\/a> late in the second period. Sabourin was fined $2,018.23 for slashing Florida defenseman Niko Mikkola<\/a> early in the third period.<\/p>\n

Both fines were the maximum allowed by terms of the collective bargaining agreement. The money goes to the league’s emergency assistance fund for players.<\/p>\n

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The teams combined to commit 45 penalties — 26 by Tampa Bay, 19 by Florida. No NHL regular-season game has had more penalties called since the New York Islanders<\/a> (34) and Pittsburgh (31) combined for 65 penalties on Feb. 11, 2011.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay’s 26 penalties were a franchise regular-season record. Florida’s 19 penalties tied the fourth most in club history for a regular-season contest. The teams combined for 136 penalty minutes, second most in the NHL this season; Edmonton and Calgary racked up a combined 154 Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay won Saturday’s game, 4-2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Rivalry games, they’re intense hockey,” Guentzel said after the game.<\/p>\n

Sabourin lost money for the second time this season following a Lightning-Panthers game. He forfeited $16,145.84 in salary by getting suspended four games for his role in a preseason penalty fest between the clubs in October, one where the sides committed 65 penalties — 36 by Tampa Bay, 29 by Florida — and racked up 322 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The NHL fined Florida‘s Anton Lundell and Tampa Bay‘s Scott Sabourin for their actions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-376933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}