Maple Leafs forward Cedric Pare catches another beatdown.

Unfortunately for Cedric Pare, he may very well have put a target on his back this season.

On Sunday night, Pare, the man best known for injuring Montreal Canadiens star forward Patrik Laine with a knee on knee hit, was on the receiving end of another beatdown during a preseason game after he was sent down to the American Hockey League by the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Pare, who was representing the Leafs AHL affiliate, the Toronto Marlies, did some pushing and shoving in front of the Belleville Senators net with 21 year old Senators defenseman Djibril Toure. After both men had exchanged a few cross-checks in front of the net it would eventually lead to the gloves coming off, and unfortunately for Pare things went very poorly for him.

Toure simply demolished Pare, pummeling him with one huge shot after another as Pare appeared to be defenseless and offered no offense of his own in return.

Here is another angle of the fight that provides a better look at the exchange that led to the gloves coming off.

After Pare, who is a native of Quebec, injured Laine he was the target of outrage in his home province and I have to wonder if that may have played a role in this altercation. Toure himself is a native of Dorval, Quebec and may very well have been among those incensed by the actions of Pare earlier in the National Hockey League's preseason.

Either way it looks like Pare may have a tough season ahead of him.