Lowry hit with multi game suspension for slash to the face of Forsberg.

The National Hockey League has come down hard on Winnipeg Jets center Adam Lowry in both the discipline that they have handed out these evening as well as with the language in which they did it. 

As many of our readers will know Lowry was involved in a controversial event on Friday night when he delivered a rather nasty looking slash to the head and face of Nashville Predators star forward Filip Forsberg. This is the kind of slash that would have looked ugly even in the best of circumstances but doing it against a team that you have had a tough rivalry with as of late and delivering it to their star player no less meant that just about everyone knew that the National Hockey League would take a look at this play after the fact.

The league did just that and in the early hours of Saturday morning they announced that the Jets forward would face a disciplinary hearing with the National Hockey League's Department of Player Safety on Saturday to determine the nature of his discipline. According to an official announcement from the NHL's Department of Player Safety the league has now determined that Lowry will receive an additional two games of discipline in the form of a 2 game ban from competition. 

This of course means that Lowry will miss two huge upcoming match ups for the Jets against teams in the Eastern Conference, both of whom are teams that could be legitimate Stanley Cup Contenders this season. The Jets will first face off against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday and they then face the league's hottest team in the Tampa Bay Lightning just a few days later. 

Now you may be thinking to yourself that a 2 game suspension for what at the end of the day was a relatively mild slash may be a bit much, but it is clear that the National Hockey League felt an example needed to be made here. The league rejected any attempts at describing the incident as a loss of control or a misjudgment on the part of Lowry and instead appeared to be pointing to the fact that this was very much an intentional act on the part of Lowry. The league of course did not say as much outright, but the language used in the league's official announcement makes that very clear.

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