Connor Clifton ejected after taking Nick Cousins' head off.

Some seem to think that this was Nick Cousins getting a little taste of his own medicine.

Cousins has developed a reputation as a dirty player in the National Hockey League, a reputation that has really ramped up over the course of this current season, but on Saturday night he was the one finding himself on the receiving end of a dirty play.

Cousins and his Florida Panthers were taking on the Buffalo Sabres when in the third period of that game Cousins was leveled by a huge hit to the head courtesy of Sabres defenseman Connor Clifton. There was no question about the fact that Cousins' head was the primary point of contact on this hit as Clifton nearly took his head right off, although that doesn't seem to have garnered Cousins much sympathy.

The hit was called as a major penalty in the moment and the officials would take it under review but returned with the same conclusion, awarding the Panthers a 5 minute power play and sending Clifton to the showers early with a game misconduct for this hit.

You have to wonder, given the blatant nature of the head contact, if NHL player safety might get involved in this one.