FURIOUS Swindon Wildcats head coach Aaron Nell will ask the English Ice Hockey Association to take action against Bracknell Bees’ James Galazzi for what he described as a ‘two-handed baseball swing’ on Floyd Taylor.

The Wildcats secured a four-point weekend with a dramatic 2-1 overtime victory at Bracknell but Nell was enraged by the way Galazzi challenged 21-year-old Taylor during the first period and plans to request video footage of the incident, which wasn’t called as a foul by officials during Sunday’s game.

The Link Centre chief revealed that he spoke to Galazzi in the summer to discuss the possibility of the 32-year-old joining Cats but says that he would jettison one of his own players for striking an opponent with their stick in that manner.

“I probably sound like a broken record but this league has to protect players because it is getting out of control,” said Nell.

“I’m not exaggerating – eight minutes into the games, someone two-hand baseball-swings one of our players in the head.

“There was no call and how the linesman didn’t see it, I’ll never know.

“In a normal league, he’ll be suspended for at least five but maybe 10 or 15 games, and I want to get video from Bracknell and I want to send it to the league because it’s embarrassing.

“The referees need help because things are going on that are an absolute disgrace. People might say ‘he’s like a broken record’ but if someone sees the video, they’ll see where I’m at.

“He’s two-handed him in the head and that’s with a weapon. It could be a criminal offence and the league need to help the refs and get the video, and suspend the guy for a long, long time.

“I talked to that player in the summer – if he did that for the Wildcats, he’d be fired.

“It’s a joke and the league needs to sort it out before someone gets seriously hurt. Luckily, it hit Floydy’s helmet and his ear, and he’s not seriously hurt.

“Hockey is a contact game and it’s a physical game. There’s going to be injuries and there’s going to be things that happen in the spur of the moment but something like that is an absolute disgrace.

“The league should get the video and suspend him for a long, long time.”

A gruelling encounter saw Bracknell take the Wildcats past regulation time, Olegs Lascenko’s strike cancelling out Max Birbraer’s power play goal in the second period.

With seven seconds of overtime to go, Tomasz Malasinki fired home the winner.