Kane ejected For "Abuse of Official"
TBH in watching this video, it looks like the official abused Kane by jumping him and driving him into the ice:
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id...-says-ref-jumped-calls-ejection-absolute-joke
Prior to that, it looked like Kane tried to slash Engelland and the referee jumped in and took the slash, which was clearly intended for Engelland who had cross checked Kane. One has to wonder why the Ref went after and tried to subdue Kane rather than Engelland, if he was being a peacemaker as he claimed. It appeared that Kane was trying to skate away. In the NFL occasionally the referees get in the way of the action and I have seen some NFL refs get steamrolled and flattened when they could not get out of the way. I think the ref here just needed to let Kane and Engelland go at it and strike a few blows and then come in. He jumped in a little too quick IMHO.
I don't think anything that happened warranted anything more than a slashing penalty on Kane and cross-checking on Engelland.
TBH in watching this video, it looks like the official abused Kane by jumping him and driving him into the ice:
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id...-says-ref-jumped-calls-ejection-absolute-joke
Prior to that, it looked like Kane tried to slash Engelland and the referee jumped in and took the slash, which was clearly intended for Engelland who had cross checked Kane. One has to wonder why the Ref went after and tried to subdue Kane rather than Engelland, if he was being a peacemaker as he claimed. It appeared that Kane was trying to skate away. In the NFL occasionally the referees get in the way of the action and I have seen some NFL refs get steamrolled and flattened when they could not get out of the way. I think the ref here just needed to let Kane and Engelland go at it and strike a few blows and then come in. He jumped in a little too quick IMHO.
I don't think anything that happened warranted anything more than a slashing penalty on Kane and cross-checking on Engelland.