Last Thursday, Mick Lawrence of the CHL Texas Brahmas was suspended for three games following Game 1 of their series against the Odessa Jackalopes for "an incident," according to the League.
That incident? An alleged slew-foot on an official during a delayed call against Lawrence. Video of the infraction finally surfaced; take a gander:
CHL writer Greg Rajan of the Caller-Times offered his take on the slew foot:
Judge for yourself as to whether that slew foot was intentional or just incidental contact. After watching it a few times, I don't know how you can call that anything but intentional. I can understand why the CHL suspended Lawrence.
We can't understand how it was only three games, even if they're playoff games. Unless, of course, they borrowed the NHL's Wheel of Discipline and decided (a) the ref wasn't injured and (b) Lawrence hadn't previously slew-footed a linesman let alone a referee and (c) the ref was a little fake artist, according to recently decoded emails ...
The incident is the second incident between the Brahmas and an official in the last two weeks, as coach Dan Wildfong "had to be restrained and was given a game misconduct for physical abuse of officials after appearing to make contact" with the ref and a linesman, according to the Brownsville Herald's report. Wildfong was suspended for one regular season game and three playoff games.
Stick-tap to Corby Antropik for the video.