Quote from The Athletic:
Former NHL referee Tim Peel spent 22 years in the league and, watching it unfold on TV on Saturday, agreed that Kadri’s actions weren’t incidental. There wasn’t a penalty called on the play, which Peel understood, but he said that doesn’t take away from Kadri’s intentions.
“What I saw was a player taking advantage of a situation in which two players were going hard to the net,” Peel said. “When it happened, to me at the time, I thought a minor for goalie interference should have been called on the play. But I have no problem with a penalty not being called because in real time it’s hard to tell who made the initial contact, and at most it’s a minor penalty.
“I like Naz Kadri, I like the player a lot, and he’s a very talented player. But what I saw there is a player who knew he could take advantage of a situation and took full advantage of it.
“Do I think he should be suspended? No, I don’t. I don’t think it’s a suspendable offense,” Peel said. “But it seems every playoffs, he is in the spotlight somehow, from (suspension-issued hits on) Tommy Wingels (in 2018) to Jake DeBrusk (2019) to Justin Faulk (2021), and now Jordan Binnington. Is that a coincidence? Probably not.”
The evidence is there…..he’s a danger to the people he plays against and that was a well executed dirty play by one of the best in the business at it.