Henrik Zetterberg

Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it. And so it was...

For some reason, the emotion that catapults the N.H.L. onto the national stage during the playoffs has gone to another level this year, and it has started a sequence of ugly events that have transpired in a short time in the first round.

Neil Keefe was ecstatic when Brendan Shanahan took over for Colin Campbell, but he didn't know Shanahan was going to become Campbell with his inconsistent decisions.

Sean Hartnett examines Brendan Shanahan's latest rulings with a fine-tooth comb and believes Matt Carkner and Shea Weber got off lightly in comparison to Carl Hagelin's three-game ban.

Shea Weber shoves Henrik Zetterberg's head into the glass: fine, no suspension. Byron Bitz hits Kyle Clifford from behind, sending him into the boards: two-game suspension. Matt Carkner sucker punches Brian Boyle, continuing to hit him after he goes...

The playoffs were only hours old when they produced a tumultuous episode in Nashville, where Predators defenseman Shea Weber smashed the head of Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg against the glass.

The playoffs were only hours old when they produced a tumultuous episode in Nashville, where Predators defenseman Shea Weber smashed the head of Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg against the glass.

The Red Wings lost forward Darren Helm for the playoffs with a cut on his arm and Nashville defenseman Shea Weber escaped a suspension after shoving Henrik Zetterberg's head into the boards.

It was a busy day at the N.H.L. office Thursday, as officials handled incidents from the opening games of the playoffs.

The Red Wings lost forward Darren Helm for the playoffs with a cut on his arm and Nashville defenseman Shea Weber escaped a suspension after shoving Henrik Zetterberg's head into the boards.

Nashville captain Shea Weber won't miss any games of the Predators' opening round Stanley Cup playoffs series against Detroit after last night's incident in which he made Red Wings center Henrik Zetterberg's head extremely intimate with the glass.