BOSTON, June 7 (UPI) -- Aaron Rome, the Vancouver defenseman who blindsided Boston's Nathan Horton, has been barred from the rest of the Stanley Cup playoffs, the NHL said Tuesday.
Rome checked Horton, who had just passed the puck, hard near the Vancouver blue line during the first period of Monday's Stanley Cup series game in Boston. Horton dropped to the ice and was later carried off on a stretcher.