It wasn’t just Jason Blake who came away Saturday night with a black eye.
Steve Downie, the NHL’s latest repeat offender, in a prime time match-up between the Philadelphia Flyers and Toronto Maple Leafs, took advantage of Blake, the Toronto winger fully restrained by a linesman, by socking him square in the left eye.
He has received a lecture from league disciplinarian Colin Campbell and has spoken to Flyers’ GM Paul Holmgren, but will not be suspended.