Philadelphia Flyers forward Jody Shelley has been suspended for two games and will forfeit $11,827.96 in salary for delivering a hit from behind to Boston Bruins defenseman Adam McQuaid in NHL game #425, on December 11, the National Hockey League announced today. Shelley’s fine is based on his average annual salary and is calculated under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The money goes to the Players’ Emergency Assistance Fund. The incident occurred at 5:08 of the second period. Shelley was assessed a major penalty for checking from behind and a game misconduct.

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Goaltender Michael Leighton is back practicing with the Flyers today but has not yet been removed from the NHL's injured list. Once he's added, the Flyers will need to make room for him. They are at the current limit of 23 players. Peter Laviolette is not running the FLyers' practice.

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Jody Shelley will learn today how long he'll be suspended for drilling Boston's Adam McQuaid from behind in Saturday's 2-1 overtime win. Once the league informs a player that it has set up a conference with him after an on-ice incident, it has already decided to suspend him. The player can give his side of the story during the conversation but it will have zero bearing on the ruling

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Jody Shelley said on SAT night in Boston he was hoping that the fact Adam McQuaid returned to play the same period he got hurt will factor positively into his hearing with the NHL. Shelley has a 9:30 a.m. hearing with Colin Campbell's office to go over his 5-min.

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There are some games over the course of the regular season in which you know long before the opening faceoff that your team is going to have dig especially deep in order to win the game. That was the case last night in Boston. First of all, the Flyers knew they were facing a quality Bruins team and a stellar goaltending opponent in Tim Thomas (who had already shut them out on 41 saves earlier t

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