Steve Ott earned a match penalty on Saturday for eye-gouging Travis Moen. (Matt Slocum/Associated Press)

Dallas Stars forward Steve Ott has a Monday date with Colin Campbell, the National Hockey League's chief disciplinarian, to explain how he gouged the eye of Travis Moen during a post-game fight on Saturday afternoon.

Ott was called for attempt to injure as a result of the incident. He has already been assessed a match penalty.

"It was an accident. I didn't mean to do it," Ott told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram after the game at Dallas.

Because of the match penalty, Ott is suspended indefinitely until Campbell makes a decision on length of penalty.

The incident happened just as the horn went and a number of Anaheim players objected to the way the Stars forward was aggressively working over Ducks defender Scott Niedermayer in front of the net.

Moen stepped in to fight Ott, but the latter, who has a broken bone in his right hand, said he could not fight.

"It's tough when you get jumped and you're trying to defend yourself as best as you can," Ott said. "You can't really fight with a cast on.

"I don't want to get suspended for that, and also I don't want to hurt my hand in a losing cause."

Ott's hand made contact with Moen's eye, which game officials ruled was an eye-gouge and gave him a match penalty for attempting to injure.

Moen was angry afterwards.

"You don’t like it when a guy eye-gouges you after a fight," he told the Fort Worth paper. "You know, I guess he felt he had to eye-gouge me. I don’t know.

"Maybe it wasn’t intentional. Maybe he was just trying to get at me, and was pulling, and got my eye or whatever."

With files from the Canadian Press, the Associated Press