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Shea Weber fined, not suspended for boarding Jannik Hansen

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Jim Diamond is reporting on Twitter that Nashville Predators captain Shea Weber has been fined $2500, but not suspended, by the NHL after boarding Vancouver's Jannik Hansen in the 3rd period of last night's 5-1 loss to the Canucks. It would have been the first suspension in Weber's NHL career, and the team's first since Shane O`Brien sat down for two games for high-sticking Florida's Stephen Weiss back in January.


Shea Weber

#6 / Defenseman / Nashville Predators

6-4

232

Aug 14, 1985



GP G A P +/- PIM PPG SHG GWG
SOG PCT
2011 - Shea Weber 6 0 2 2 1 12 0 0 0 19 0

Here's video of the hit in question, about which Weber told Josh Cooper he "didn't even think it was a penalty at the time"...

One topic for debate here is how this reflects on Weber as a captain - is this is a case of him venting some understandable frustration over the Preds' play of late, or a loss of composure that one shouldn't expect from a team leader? Since it occured during a delayed penalty on Ryan Suter, it put the Preds into a 5-on-3 disadvantage, the second penalty by Weber last night that did so.

                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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