Taylor Hall benched by Bruce Cassidy

Hall had only one 28 second shift following his offensive zone hooking penalty against Erik Brannstrom at 11:42 of the 3rd period. He sat out the last 11 minutes and did not play in overtime. Jake DeBrusk took his spot.

His coach commented on the benching:

''Turnovers at the blue line when you have the lead in the third. We're all trying to buy into, "Play behind their D unless you have a free pass to get through there." It's just winning hockey. You want to play late in games, you've got to play winning hockey. It doesn't matter who you are on the team. He got away from that.'' - Bruce Cassidy

Will Hall learn from this? Let us know below.

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