Bertuzzi suspended for hit on Calvert
NEW YORK Detroit forward Tyler Bertuzzi was suspended for two games without pay by the NHL on Monday for his hit on Colorado’s Matt Calvert during the weekend.
Bertuzzi was sanctioned for roughing and unsportsmanlike conduct for his hit with 7:15 left in the third period of the Avalanche’s 2-0 win Sunday. No penalty was called on the play during the game.
He will miss the Red Wings’ games against Tampa Bay on Tuesday and at Toronto on Thursday. In other NHL news:
The Daniel Sprong experiment is
■ over for the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Penguins sent Sprong to the Anaheim Ducks on Monday for defenceman Marcus Pettersson.
Pittsburgh selected Sprong in the second round of the 2015 draft, but the 21-year-old struggled to find a secure spot in Pittsburgh’s forward group.
He thrived at the American Hockey League level, scoring 32 goals in 2017-18 for Pittsburgh’s AHL affiliate in Wilkes-barre/ Scranton, but had trouble duplicating that success in the NHL. Sprong has four goals and five assists in 42 NHL games, including no goals and four assists in 16 games this season.
Pettersson, 22, had six assists this season for the Ducks and one goal in 49 career games after making his debut with Anaheim last season.
The Toronto Maple Leafs traded
■ forward Josh Leivo to the Vancouver Canucks on Monday in exchange for forward Michael Carcone.
Leivo had six points (four goals, two assists) in 27 games for the Maple Leafs this season. Carcone has 17 points (six goals) in 20 games with AHL Utica this season.
Andrew Mangiapane’s ears
■ might still be ringing. Shooting for his first big-league tally, the Calgary Flames forward call-up clanked the post during Sunday’s 3-2 victory over the Blackhawks in Chicago.
“An inch maybe the other way, I would have had my first,” Mangiapane said. “But it’s all right. The chances are coming.”
The Flames will swap out a forward for Tuesday’s road-trip capper against the Blue Jackets in Columbus, but Mangiapane likely won’t be the guy sitting out when Austin Czarnik is plugged into the lineup.
“I thought he was good (in Chicago). I thought he was really good,” Flames head coach Bill Peters said of Mangiapane. “I thought he was really tenacious, worked really hard, responsible away from the puck, gave our team a little more additional pace.”