Carolina may have to take the ice in Pittsburgh's Mellon Arena without forward Erik Cole Thursday night in game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals. The Oswego-born pivot was injured in Monday night's game 1 match-up when he took a knee-to-knee hit from Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke.
Cooke, a former member of the Wellington Dukes and Syracuse Crunch, vocalized his displeasure during Pittsburgh's previous series with Washington when Alexander Ovechkin made a similar hit on Sergei Gonchar.
Gonchar missed games 5 and 6 of the series after the hit before returning for game 7; Ovechkin was not suspended by the league.
"If I did what he did, I wouldn't be on the ice," said Cooke after Ovechkin's hit on Gonchar. Time will tell, but at this point it appears that Cooke will be proven wrong by the league's suddenly lenient front office.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Oswego Native Cole Could Miss Game 2
I'm a sports reporter who most recently covered Syracuse University football for Clear Channel Syracuse (620 WHEN & 570 WSYR).
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