ECHL hands out suspensions in Toledo Walleye-Kansas City Mavericks brawl

Per the Toledo Blade’s Mark Monroe, the ECHL finally handed out supplemental discipline from Saturday night’s brawl with the Kansas City Mavericks:

Kansas City’s Klotz and Freschi fined, suspended

Kansas City’s Garrett Klotz has been suspended for eight games and Eric Freschi has been suspended for two games resulting from their actions ECHL Game #641, Kansas City at Toledo, on Feb. 10. Both players have also been fined an undisclosed amount.

Klotz was assessed a match penalty for cross checking under Rule #59.4 at 12:14 of the third period. He is fined and suspended under Rule #28 – Supplementary Discipline.

Klotz will miss Kansas City’s games vs. Indy (Feb. 16 and Feb. 17), vs. Florida (Feb. 18), vs. Allen (Feb. 23 and Feb. 24), vs. Rapid City (Feb. 27) and vs. Fort Wayne (March 2 and March 3).

Freshci was assessed a major penalty and game misconduct for cross checking under Rule #59.5 at 19:30 of the third period. He is fined and suspended under Rule #28 – Supplementary Discipline.

Freschi will miss Kansas City’s games vs. Indy on Feb. 16 and Feb. 17.

Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the ECHL and the Professional Hockey Players’ Association, player fines collected by the ECHL are given to the PHPA for its ECHL Player’s Hardship Fund.

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One thought on “ECHL hands out suspensions in Toledo Walleye-Kansas City Mavericks brawl”

  1. The player for KC klotZ could have maybe should have received more than 8 games for those cross checks. That’s is some absurd bullshit.

    Good post George!

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