{"id":18656,"date":"2014-05-12T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nhl-fines-lundqvist-for-squirting-crosby\/"},"modified":"2014-05-12T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T21:41:00","slug":"nhl-fines-lundqvist-for-squirting-crosby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nhl-fines-lundqvist-for-squirting-crosby\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL fines Lundqvist for squirting Crosby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The NHL fined New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist $5,000 on Monday for squirting Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby in the face with water during Game 6 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series.<\/p>\n<p>As a scrum broke out in front of the Rangers&#8217; net at the end of the second period, Lundqvist skated past the pile and sprayed water in the face of Crosby, who was tangled up in the melee.<\/p>\n<p>Lundqvist was not assessed a penalty on the play and went on to post 36 saves in a 3-1 win for the Rangers to force a Game 7 in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Boston&#8217;s Shawn Thornton received a $2,820 fine on Sunday for squirting Montreal defenseman P.K. Subban in the face with water during Game 5 of their Eastern Conference semifinal set.<\/p>\n<p>Both players were fined the maximum allowed under the collective bargaining agreement. Lundqvist&#8217;s fine was higher because he makes more than Thornton.<\/p>\n<p>The money goes to the players&#8217; emergency assistance fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The NHL fined New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist $5,000 on Monday for squirting Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby in the face with water during Game 6 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series. As a scrum broke out in front of the Rangers&#8217; net at the end of the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}