11.   They also picked up two unnecessary penalties that cost the team dearly.

12.   Basically, every one was an unnecessary penalty.

13.   That reputation for taking unnecessary penalties, often at the most inopportune times, is haunting them against the more disciplined Sabres.

14.   The embarrassing defeat was largely due to a multitude of unnecessary penalties.

15.   The Penguins seemed too eager to retaliate for any Flyers push or shove during a series of first-period fracases and thus drew unnecessary penalties.