The incident with Panetta and Jordan Subban occurred 23 seconds into overtime during Jacksonville's 1-0 home victory over South Carolina on Saturday. It came in the wake of minor league forward Krystof Hrabik's 30-game suspension for making a racial gesture during a Jan. 12 AHL game. Subban on Twitter showed Panetta taking a monkey-like pose while Jordan Subban was being led away by an official. In a post on his Twitter account, Jordan Subban said Panetta "was too much of a coward" to fight him. "My actions toward Jordan were not because of race, and were not intended as a racial gesture.

Source: The Express Tribune January 28, 2022 02:40 UTC