QMJHL Gets Suspension Happy

The QMJHL came down hard on Jonathan Lessard.

Baie-Comeau Drakkar overage forward Lessard was suspended for 15 games for a knee on knee hit on Quebec Remparts forward Nick Sorensen, a top prospect for the 2013 NHL draft.

Remparts GM and head coach Patrick Roy, never one to keep himself out of the limelight, put the pressure on the league to hit Lessard hard when he stated that disciplinary chief Raymond Bolduc was “too nice a guy” to suspend players.

The Roy factor cannot be underestimated in the length of Lessard’s suspension and he was fined $2500 for the remarks.