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Edmonton coach: Ott should be suspended for head shot

Steve Ott

Dallas Stars’ Steve Ott watches from the bench during the shootout in an NHL hockey game against the Phoenix Coyotes Tuesday, March 29, 2011, in Glendale, Ariz. The Coyotes defeated the Stars 2-1 in a shootout. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Edmonton head coach Tom Renney thinks Dallas agitator Steve Ott should be suspended for this hit to the head of Oilers center Anton Lander last night:

“He should be getting a rest,” Renney told the Edmonton Journal, insinuating that a suspension from NHL discipline czar Brendan Shanahan should be forthcoming.

Ott received a two-minute checking to the head penalty on the play, along with a five-minute major for fighting Edmonton’s Josh Green. While Lander appeared no worse for wear -- “my head is good, no problem,” he said following the game -- Green was insistent the hit was dirty cheese.

“I’m not so sure it was an elbow by him, but definitely a head shot. He comes running down from the point a lot to hit guys who are kind of engaged in another battle,” said Green. “I thought it was the right thing to do to stand up for Anton.”

Green then had some words for Ott as the two sat in their respective penalty boxes.

“I told him it was a dirty play because he was pretty defenseless,” he said.

As far as possible suspension goes, Ott could be seen as a repeat offender having been suspended three times before -- once for a hit to the head of Jordan Leopold, once for eye-gouging Travis Moen during a fight and once for low-bridging Carlo Colaiacovo.