A big brawl broke out at the end of the Lightning’s loss to the Predators on Thursday night after Austin Watson ripped an unnecessary slap shot straight into the body of defenseman Jeremy Lauzon as the game clock expired.
Tampa Bay trailed Nashville 5–1 with just two seconds left on the clock, when Watson received the puck and senselessly opted to power up a slap shot and rifle it down the center of the ice.
Lauzon was skating back on defense, clearly not expecting Watson to attempt to move the puck so aggressively as time expired, when the shot caught him directly in the midsection, sending him to the ice in pain.
