Hockey star smashes REF with his stick in shocking playoff meltdown

Dallas Stars guardant Mason Marchment has amazingly avoided immoderate signifier of punishment aft being caught connected camera striking the referee with his stick.

Marchment was playing for the Stars successful their Game 3 Stanley Cup 2nd circular triumph implicit the Winnipeg Jets, but the triumph was overshadowed by a infinitesimal of madness from the Canadian NHL star.

As his frustrations grew implicit a perceived deficiency of enactment from the referees connected the ice, helium got up from being knocked down by a rival subordinate and approached authoritative Graham Skilliter.

In a shocking moment, Marchment appeared to swipe astatine the ref's shins with his instrumentality earlier making his mode disconnected the ice.

While the onslaught was not overly aggressive, it is highly uncommon to spot a subordinate instrumentality specified enactment against an authoritative and galore believed Marchment was going to beryllium acceptable for a lengthy prohibition and a hefty fine.

Incredibly, though, Skilliter successful the infinitesimal decided that the incidental did not represent Abuse of Official, and it is understood the NHL besides won't instrumentality enactment against the player.

At the commencement of the 3rd period, reporters astatine the crippled revealed that Marchment verbally apologized to the ref earlier the puck drop.

Abuse of Official violations are uncommon successful hockey but tin effect successful up to a 20-game suspension. 

Young Chicago Blackhawks superstar Connor Bedard was precocious fixed a 10-minute crippled misconduct punishment for maltreatment of an official.

In the crippled itself connected Sunday, Marchment and the Stars bushed the Jets to instrumentality a 2-1 pb successful the series.

Dallas is looking to beforehand to the Western Conference Final for the 3rd consecutive play and is presently successful the driving spot to marque it.