Shelley and Letourneau-Leblond Suspended

Jody Shelley and Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond were both suspended by the NHL yesterday.

The Flames Letourneau-Leblond was handed a suspension for the remainder of the preseason, as well as one regular season game.

Letourneau-Leblond drew the ire of disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan with a boarding minor on the Vancouver Canucks' Matt Clackson. The Flames forward doesn't have a past record of these kinds of hits nor was Clackson injured on the boarding infraction.

Longstanding heavyweight Jody Shelley of the Philadelphia Flyers was given a suspension for his boarding major on the Toronto Maple Leafs' Darryl Boyce. Shelley was suspended the remainder of the preseason with the addition of five regular season games.

Shanahan explained the rationale for a lengthier suspension was that Shelley was suspended twice last year for checks from behind and that Boyce suffered a broken nose as a result of the hit.