Milan Lucic

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From The Gazette's Herb Zurkowsky:

A repentant Milan Lucic said he has no choice but to respect the one-game suspension he received Sunday from the National Hockey League after being ejected from last Saturday's game against the Canadiens.

Lucic, the big and tough Boston winger, received a minor and match penalty late in the third period for cross-checking Montreal centre Maxim Lapierre. Lucic was expected to be replaced on the roster by rookie Byron Bitz when the teams play the third game of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series, tonight at the Bell Centre. The Bruins have won the opening two games in the best-of-seven series.

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The first two playoff games down in Boston have been humbling affairs for our Montreal Canadiens. They were soundly out-muscled and clearly out-played. The Bruins played well in Game 1 and they played damn well in Game 2. The Habs played decently in Game 1 and piss-poor on Saturday. Game 3 will truly show what these 2008-2009 Montreal Canadiens are made of.
We’re down 2-0. We were given a good spanking on Saturday. And now, at home, we can prove that we deserve to still be competing.
We need to redeem ourselves. We need to claw back into this series. We need to take advantage of a Lucic-less Boston team.
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Bruins forward Milan Lucic has been suspended for tomorrow night's game for his blow to the head of Maxim Lapierre in the waning moments of Saturday's Game 2 in Boston.

Saturday night, here's what Bruins coach Claude Julien said, as reported by the Boston Globe's Fluto Shinzawa:

"(Lucic) might have lost his composure a little bit in that area. But you have to remember that he got elbowed in the head, then high-sticked by (Mathieu) Schneider. Then Lapierre comes in – Lapierre who's been an instigator throughout the whole series, and even during the regular season – and what Looch did was react at him coming at him. It wasn't premeditated. In reviewing it, he hit him with his glove. He had his stick in his hands, but his glove hit his helmet. Had his stick hit him in the head, I think Lapierre would have been down. But Lapierre stayed up and kept going at Looch. If there's one thing, I know it certainly wasn't premeditated."