Bottineau’s was very tame, not malicious at all. Standard stock finishing a hit. The issue was he was looking away at the puck and didn’t realize Holomego’s head was bent forward, so bad result. Minor penalty all day if you ask me.
Labrash’s was worse only because he saw Henry was in a bad position and still completed the hit. Again though, not malicious and not much force. Just when you’re that big, you almost need to hold off there.
At the end of the day though, Kitchener was small and got badly pushed around last year. What’s working now is they have bigger bodies who finish every hit. So you take the odd penalty to get the benefit of that. Don’t like seeing head contact but neither of these were remotely vicious.
