Despite hearing, NHL Player Safety fines — not suspends — Golden Knights’ Roy for cross-check on Oilers’ Frederic

The incident in question happened in Thursday night’s Game 2 between the two sides when Roy appeared to get his wires cross five and a half minutes into overtime. Roy and Frederic were battling for a loose puck along the boards, watching as the vulcanized rubber flung into the air.

It was then that both turned towards the puck, and Roy loaded and unloaded a cross-check right to Frederic’s face. The Oilers forward hit the ice, leaving the game and later returning after some repairs, while Roy was handed a five-minute major and a game misconduct.

Edmonton wouldn’t score on their subsequent power play, but Leon Draisaitl would notch the game-winner later in the period — with a bit more controversy before it — when Viktor Arvidsson tripped Brayden McNabb and didn’t get penalized. It was a nerve-wracking play as while Arvidsson was trying to play the puck near the boards, his stick got caught in the feet of the blue liner, sending him hard into the boards, slamming his left shoulder into them.

McNabb would get up on his own shortly thereafter, leaving the game, and though some called for Arvidsson to have a hearing of his own, that wasn’t the case.

Golden Knights head coach Bruce Cassidy was none too pleased with the missed call.

“Listen, Gord (Dwyer) is looking at it. He blew it, he missed the call. I don’t know what else to say,” Cassidy said. “It’s a can-opener trip, it’s a dangerous play, it’s all those things. But it didn’t get called so you got to keep playing.”

The series is set to shift home where the Oilers feel their best is yet to come even though they hold a 2-0 lead over the Golden Knights, stealing two wins from them in their own rink. Game 3 is set for Saturday night.