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It’s the sort of thing that drives a skilled NHL player mental.

In Monday’s game between the cellar-dwelling Carolina Hurricanes and the Montreal Canadiens, who are on the second-last step of the basement stairs, defenceman P.K. Subban subtly angled his body to hold up the Canes’ Jeff Skinner and edge him out of a race for a dump-in.

Skinner, who had previously been high-sticked by Rene Bourque (no call) and would later become enmeshed in a bantamweight jousting match with David Desharnais, went ballistic in a nearby referee’s ear when play stopped.

There’s some interpretation on our part that the reason was obstruction - Skinner clearly had several burrs in his unitard this night (he later high-sticked Subban while trying to get by on a play where the latter rightly held his ground).

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