it may not be a question of if - but rather how long - Nazem Kadri will be suspended for his hit on Tommy Wingels on Thursday night.

The Toronto Maple Leafs center was given a five-minute charging major and a game misconduct for hitting the Boston Bruins forward in the numbers and into the boards late in Game 1 of the teams' first-round playoff series.

Kadri appeared to be retaliating after Zdeno Chara and Wingels hit Mitch Marner up high in quick succession.

The Leafs' talented agitator has been suspended multiple times in his career, and most recently received a four-game ban for cross-checking Luke Glendening of the Detroit Red Wings in April 2016.

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