Saturday night’s hockey game between the Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks ended in a 3-2 win for the Canucks. It was a win the Canucks needed and a loss the Oilers likely didn’t expect.

With those words Sportsnet commentator Ray Ferraro called the play that will be debated hotly in the next day, Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers bashing Vancouver Canucks Conor Garland with a wicked crosscheck, followed by Tyler Myers of the Canucks crosschecking Evan Bouchard with at least as brutal a hack to the face in the following scrum.

A match penalty requires an automatic review for supplemental discipline by the league. McDavid was likely already lucky to avoid a fine or suspension earlier in the week when he elbowed Marcus Johansson of the Wild in Wednesday's contest,

A pair of cross-checks have landed Connor McDavid and Tyler Myers in hot water with the National Hockey League. What led to the incidents that landed both match penalties — and subsequent automatic hearings with the NHL — happened in the final seconds of Saturday’s game between the Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks.