AHL Player Trevor Gillies Slams Opponent's Face on Ice After Fight

Adirondack Flames winger Trevor Gillies has a long and sordid history of being an on-ice bruiser who racks up suspensions. So perhaps it’s no surprise he took things over the line last night during a scuffle with William Carrier, a winger for the Rochester Americans.

Gillies’ attempt to instigate a fight with Carrier resulted in the Americans player dropping to the ice in order to halt the proceedings. Evidently not satisfied with this, Gillies continued to jostle Carrier before slamming him face-first into the ice.

“I felt my head get picked up and pulled down,” Carrier said. Carrier wasn’t injured. He even maintained afterward it was no big deal. “That’s hockey,” he said.

His coach, however, took a different angle.

"“If there’s room for that in hockey, I’m not sure I want to coach anymore,” Chadd Cassidy said. “It looked bad; you spike a guy’s head into the ice.”"

Gillies can likely look forward to adding another suspension to his name after the ugly incident. Then again, it’s all part of the experience for a man who has 3,054 penalty minutes compared to 11 goals in his professional career.

[Puck Daddy]