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The Flyers organization is furious with the Florida Panthers' Garnett E. for his dirty hit on Anton Volchenkov. The young 22 year old defenseman received a broken neck from the hit.
Although it was apparant from Garnett's reaction to Anton lying on the ice that he did not intend to hurt Volchenkov, he did and as a result Anton will be out for at least 3 months.
Garnett on the other hand received 5 game suspension. After the game, Flyers's GM Mannarino was seen running from the press box after he learned of the extent of Anton's injury and headed for the visitor's locker room. He had to be restrained from attacking the Panthers coach and from his main target the Panther's GM. After several minutes they were able to calm the hot-headed GM down.
We've learned that the Flyers this morning sent the league a request to review the suspension as they feel the hit and resulting injury justified a longer suspension and a large fine to the HF Panthers organization, coach and GM.
The Flyers expect to bring up Ray Giroux from the minors and possibly sign youngsters Paul Ranger and Tim Gleason.
Although it was apparant from Garnett's reaction to Anton lying on the ice that he did not intend to hurt Volchenkov, he did and as a result Anton will be out for at least 3 months.
Garnett on the other hand received 5 game suspension. After the game, Flyers's GM Mannarino was seen running from the press box after he learned of the extent of Anton's injury and headed for the visitor's locker room. He had to be restrained from attacking the Panthers coach and from his main target the Panther's GM. After several minutes they were able to calm the hot-headed GM down.
We've learned that the Flyers this morning sent the league a request to review the suspension as they feel the hit and resulting injury justified a longer suspension and a large fine to the HF Panthers organization, coach and GM.
The Flyers expect to bring up Ray Giroux from the minors and possibly sign youngsters Paul Ranger and Tim Gleason.