Tootoo playing dirty

[Iced Tea]

During the Behind the Mask segment on CBC, they showed a highlight from the Preds/Stars game tonight. It showed Tootoo hitting Modano late, then Modano's teammate Stephane Robidas skated over, Tootoo saw Robidas coming, turned around and punch Robidas in the face. Robidas went down and ended up being stretchered off the ice.

Robidas got a minor for charging, and Tootoo got a double minor for roughing. The highlight I saw didn't show Robidas even connecting with Tootoo so did Robidas get a charging penalty for running his face into Tootoo's fist?

It was also reported that Tootoo played dirty against the Red Wings in home and away games on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

Hrudey and Russell figure that Tootoo will be gone for the rest of the season for his head shot on Robidas.

Nothing is on TSN, SN, or ESPN yet but I expect another US media freakout by tomorrow.

[HockeyStationGuy]

Tootoo plays so dirty against the Sharks it's unbeleiveable.It's going to be a good game on Thursday!

[Nelson19777]

Tootoo plays on the edge of dirty so often its not even funny. People picked on Matt Cooke for it. It's about time the league sent a message.

[charlio lemieux]

The league needs a few evil characters. Now if they would just get rid of the instigator penalty so the enforcers can kick the living piss out of these guys when they cheapshot someone, all would be good.

[Nelson19777]

It's not even just the instigator. I think most teams would kick his ass anyway but as soon as a bad hit is delivered the linesmen/refs run right over to protect him from the repercussions and cart him safely off to the penalty box.