PHILADELPHIA -- The Penguins were none too happy to be down their top two defensemen due to injury in their Stadium Series game against the Flyers on Saturday.
Fair to say, they weren't much happier on Sunday when the NHL's Department of Player Safety declined to further punish the Flyers' Wayne Simmonds for his hit on Brian Dumoulin. According to our TV partners at WPXI, the league was in possession of another camera angle -- not belonging to NBC -- that showed Simmonds' point of impact was the chest, not the head or chin.
Dumoulin and Kris Letang were both injured with a little under five minutes remaining in the first period of what was a physical -- but typical -- game between the in-state rivals. After Philadelphia prevailed, 4-3, in overtime, Mike Sullivan said Dumoulin had sustained a concussion, his second since taking a hit from the Capitals in last April's first-round playoff matchup, while Letang was still being evaluated for an upper body injury.
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