Leafs’ Bunting gets brutally sucker punched at the back of the head by Sergachev

Last night’s game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Tampa Bay Lightning was all over the place. The game also involved nine goals, with Tampa Bay scoring eight in an 8-1-beating.

The 60-minute sh*t show was full of dirty hits and prompted enforcers Pat Maroon and Wayne Simmonds to get involved in a scrum. The two got into a heating argument in the first period, as Maroon was heard calling Simmonds” soft.” The two of them also got into a fight late in the second, as they both dropped their gloves. At the end of the game, Leafs’ Kyle Clifford even whacked Corey Perry on the head with his stick.

But those were not the only cheap shot given…

Fans started to pick up on a sequence from the first period which involved Mikhail Sergachev and Michael Bunting. As both players battled in front of the Lightning goal crease, Sergachev sucker punched Bunting right in the head, causing him to fall. TSN picked up on the dirty move and couldn’t understand why no penalty was called on the play. It might have just seemed to the officials that the Russian defenseman was protecting his goalie by pushing Bunting, though it is clear from this video that he sucker punched him right at the back of the head.

It remains to be seen if Sergachev will get a hearing from the NHL Department of Player Safety.