Wisconsin senior forward Matt Doman was suspended for one game, a penalty imposed on Friday by the WCHA for kneeing North Dakota’s David Lundbohm on Dec. 7.<\/p>\n
Doman, who received a two-minute penalty on the play, will be forced to sit out the Badgers’ opening game at the Bank One Badger Hockey Showdown next week in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
The Badgers are scheduled to play Brown on Dec. 27.<\/p>\n
Doman kneed Lundbohm at mid-ice, and the North Dakota forward suffered a bruised thigh.<\/p>\n
North Dakota coach Dean Blais questioned that the call was only a minor penalty.<\/p>\n
“That one should have been a major penalty by Doman,” Blais said after the game. “He kneed David Lundbohm and the referee saw it, and it should have been a major.”<\/p>\n
The NCAA ice hockey rulebook contains language to help referees determine whether a kneeing penalty should be called as a minor or a major.<\/p>\n
It reads: “A minor penalty should be assessed in most situations. When the knee is used in a flagrant or violent manner, a major penalty should be assessed. Whenever injury results from fouling an opponent with a knee, a disqualification penalty must be assessed.”<\/p>\n
Lundbohm got treatment on the bench for his injury, and he left the ice to go to the locker room after the penalty call was made.<\/p>\n
Doman has three goals and five assists in 16 games for the Badgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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