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The NHL department of player safety has suspended Columbus Blue Jackets center Brandon Dubinsky for one game for his cross check on Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby. The department of player safety made its ruling after a hearing Saturday. Dubinsky sat out Saturday night's 3-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues. "We're not going to whine here," Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella said. "Pittsburgh can whine. Pittsburgh whines enough for the whole league, so there's no room for any other team to whine. So we just go about our business. We missed him. We missed him but you can't get involved in what happened in those type of situations." Crosby was hit in the back of the neck late in the Blue Jackets' 2-1 overtime win Friday night. He was slow getting to his skates and went to the locker room with 1:20 left in the second period. He returned for the third period and played the rest of the game. Dubinsky was assessed a minor penalty. He will lose $31,451.61 in pay through the suspension. "I don't try to do anything dirty,'' Dubinsky said. "I felt my stick rode up his back a little bit. He's kind of bent over there in front. But again that's not really the type of player I am. I'm going to play hard but try and play fair and in between the whistle.'' Penguins coach Mike Johnston wasn't thrilled when he got a second look at the play. "When you look at it again, it looked bad to me when I saw it in between periods,'' he said. And Crosby? "I'm OK,'' he said. "There is always concern when that happens. Yeah, I'm good. Honestly I didn't even see it so I don't know how it looked. I just know how it felt.'' Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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