Atlanta’s Ilya Kovalchuk has been fined but not suspended by the NHL for the match penalty he received in a preseason game against the Nashville Predators.
Kovalchuk was assessed a match penalty for a kicking motion on the Predators Jordan Tootoo.
The league apparently deemed Kovalchuk’s infraction more of a defensive gesture than an actual kick, as Tootoo was tangled up with Kovalchuk at the time.
