Sidney Crosby leaves game 3 against capitals with injuries

Niskanen, who played four seasons with Crosby on the penguins before signing the capitals as an unrestricted free agent in 2014, said that he did not want to check him in his head.
“Absolutely not. It was not intended,” he said. “I saw the repetition. It looks really bad in Super Slow-Mo. I caught it. I think he comes to score a goal. When he does it, he gets lower, and if it happens so quickly, my stick and his head collided. I did not stretch out in my head.”
Niskanen said the contact point was higher than intended because Crosby fell.
“I didn't even try to cross him with a serious amount of violence,” he said. “A collision would happen in the wrinkle there. When the piece begins for the first time, I think that my stick on his arm level is probably right where the numbers on the side of his jerseys are located. And because he tries to make a game, it gets lower because he gets pressure to score.”
The penguine striker Chris Kunitz saw the game differently.
“It is obviously mutating,” said Kunitz. “A man who is the best player in the world who plays in his heyday is only a dominant games. It is one of these things that you look at and see what actually happened, and I think the next is how deliberately it was when the guy drives him in the face.
“I thought all of this was somehow out of this league, but I don't think.”
Capitals trainer Barry despite called the hit a hockey game.
“If you look at it, sid comes up and [Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby] Throws out his stick there, “said” he is divided and he comes down and [Niskanen] Must go to the rear post, because the puck goes there and it just ran on it. Unfortunately, SID was injured there, but I don't know if you want the guy to throw his hands over his head in this situation. It's just hockey and it's a hockey game. “