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6 years
Washington’s Tom Wilson suspended three games for an illegal check to the head on Pittsburgh’s Zach Aston-Reese.
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Edmonton’s Evander Kane will have a hearing today for Boarding Colorado’s Nazem Kadri.
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Washington’s Tom Wilson suspended twenty games for an Illegal Check to the Head on St. Louis’ Oskar Sundqvist.
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Washington’s Tom Wilson has been suspended for seven games for Boarding Boston’s Brandon Carlo.
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Winnipeg’s Mark Scheifele has been suspended for four games for Charging Montreal’s Jake Evans.
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Toronto’s Nazem Kadri has been suspended for the remainder of the First Round for Cross-checking Boston’s Jake DeBrusk.
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Washington’s Tom Wilson will have a hearing today for an illegal check to the head on Pittsburgh’s Zach Aston-Reese.
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Winnipeg’s Mark Scheifele will have a hearing today for Charging Montreal’s Jake Evans.
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2 years
Boston’s Brad Marchand has been suspended for six games for Roughing/High-sticking Pittsburgh’s Tristan Jarry.
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Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov will have a hearing tomorrow for Boarding Columbus’ Markus Nutivaara.
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Vegas’ Alex Pietrangelo will have a hearing today for Slashing against Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl.
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Dallas’ Jamie Benn has been suspended for two games for Cross-checking against Vegas’ Mark Stone.
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Toronto’s Michael Bunting has been suspended for 3 playoff games for an Illegal Check to the Head and Interference against Tampa Bay’s Erik Cernak.
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Toronto’s Auston Matthews will have a hearing tomorrow for Cross-checking Buffalo’s Rasmus Dahlin.
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St. Louis’ David Perron has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Cross-checking Colorado’s Nazem Kadri.
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3 years
Washington’s Tom Wilson has been offered an in-person hearing via Zoom for Boarding Boston’s Brandon Carlo. Date and time TBD.
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Boston’s Brad Marchand has been offered an in-person hearing via Zoom for Roughing/High-sticking Pittsburgh’s Tristan Jarry. Date and time TBD.
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Buffalo’s Aaron Dell will have a hearing today for Interference on Ottawa’s Drake Batherson.
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Colorado’s Cale Makar has been suspended for one playoff game for Interference against Seattle’s Jared McCann.
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Toronto’s Morgan Rielly has been suspended for five games for cross-checking Ottawa’s Ridly Greig.
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3 years
Colorado’s Nazem Kadri has been suspended for eight games for an Illegal Check to the Head on St. Louis’ Justin Faulk.
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2 years
Toronto’s Auston Matthews has been suspended for two games for Cross-checking Buffalo’s Rasmus Dahlin.
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4 years
Edmonton’s Zack Kassian has been suspended for seven games for Kicking Tampa Bay’s Erik Cernak.
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Colorado’s Cale Makar will have a hearing today for Interference against Seattle’s Jared McCann.
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St. Louis’ Jordan Binnington has been suspended for two games for Roughing/Unsportsmanlike Conduct on Minnesota’s Ryan Hartman.
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2 years
Boston’s Brad Marchand has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Slashing Carolina’s Pyotr Kochetkov.
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Vegas’ Alex Pietrangelo has been suspended for one playoff game for Slashing against Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl.
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6 years
Toronto’s Nazem Kadri suspended three games for boarding Boston’s Tommy Wingels.
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Toronto’s Michael Bunting will have a hearing on Wednesday for an Illegal Check to the Head / Interference against Tampa Bay’s Erik Cernak.
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5 years
Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov has been suspended for one game for Boarding Columbus’ Markus Nutivaara.
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2 years
Boston’s Brad Marchand has been suspended for three games for Slew-footing Vancouver’s Oliver Ekman-Larsson.
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5 years
Toronto’s Nazem Kadri has been offered an in-person hearing for Cross-checking Boston’s Jake DeBrusk. Date and time TBD.
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NY Rangers’ Matt Rempe has been suspended for four games for elbowing New Jersey’s Jonas Siegenthaler.
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3 years
Vegas’ Ryan Reaves will have a hearing today for Roughing/ Unsportsmanlike Conduct on Colorado’s Ryan Graves.
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2 years
Edmonton’s Evander Kane has been suspended for one game for Boarding Colorado’s Nazem Kadri.
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St. Louis’ Jordan Binnington will have a hearing today for Roughing/Unsportsmanlike Conduct on Minnesota’s Ryan Hartman.
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Toronto’s Morgan Rielly has been offered an in-person hearing for cross-checking Ottawa’s Ridly Greig. Date and time TBD.
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Edmonton’s Darnell Nurse has been automatically suspended for one game and Coach Jay Woodcroft has been fined $10,000 under rule 46.21, Instigating in Final Five Minutes of Regulation.
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Edmonton’s Connor McDavid has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Elbowing Montreal’s Jesperi Kotkaniemi.
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Boston’s Zdeno Chara has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Cross-checking Montreal’s Brendan Gallagher.
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Washington’s Tom Wilson has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Roughing NY Rangers’ Pavel Buchnevich.
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St. Louis’ Robert Bortuzzo will have a hearing Sunday for Cross-checking Nashville’s Viktor Arvidsson.
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Los Angeles’ Brendan Lemieux has been offered an in-person hearing via Zoom for Biting Ottawa’s Brady Tkachuk. Date and time TBD.
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5 years
Boston’s Charlie McAvoy will have a hearing today for an Illegal Check to the Head on Columbus’ Josh Anderson.
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St. Louis’ Ivan Barbashev will have a hearing today for an Illegal Check to the Head on Boston’s Marcus Johansson.
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NY Rangers’ K'Andre Miller has been suspended for three games for unsportsmanlike conduct on Los Angeles’ Drew Doughty.
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4 years
St. Louis’ Robert Bortuzzo has been suspended for four games for Cross-checking Nashville’s Viktor Arvidsson.
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Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin will have a hearing this evening for Cross-checking Nashville’s Mark Borowiecki.
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6 years
Toronto’s Nazem Kadri will have a hearing Friday for boarding/charging Boston’s Tommy Wingels.
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3 years
Washington’s Alex Ovechkin has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Spearing Boston’s Trent Frederic.
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2 years
Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin has been suspended for four games for Cross-checking Nashville’s Mark Borowiecki.
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St. Louis’ Oskar Sundqvist has been suspended for one game for Boarding Boston’s Matt Grzelcyk.
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Boston’s Charlie McAvoy has been suspended for one game for an Illegal Check to the Head on Columbus’ Josh Anderson.
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Ottawa’s Alexandre Burrows suspended ten games for serving as an aggressor/ kneeing New Jersey’s Taylor Hall.
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Colorado’s Nazem Kadri has been offered an in-person hearing via Zoom for an Illegal Check to the Head on St. Louis’ Justin Faulk. Date and time TBD.
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4 years
Edmonton’s Zack Kassian will have a hearing Monday for Roughing/Aggressor on Calgary’s Matthew Tkachuk.
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Washington’s Tom Wilson has been suspended for six games for high-sticking Toronto’s Noah Gregor.
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4 years
Dallas’ Corey Perry has been suspended for five games for Elbowing Nashville’s Ryan Ellis.
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Dallas’ Jamie Benn will have a hearing today for Cross-checking against Vegas’ Mark Stone.
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2 years
Boston’s Brad Marchand will have a hearing today for Slew-footing Vancouver’s Oliver Ekman-Larsson.
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Los Angeles’ Brendan Lemieux has been suspended for five games for Biting Ottawa’s Brady Tkachuk.
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Buffalo’s Aaron Dell has been suspended for three games for Interference on Ottawa’s Drake Batherson.
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NY Rangers’ Pavel Buchnevich will have a hearing today for High-sticking Washington’s Anthony Mantha.
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Buffalo’s Jeff Skinner has been suspended for three games for Cross-checking Pittsburgh’s Jake Guentzel.
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Boston’s Brad Marchand suspended five games for elbowing New Jersey’s Marcus Johansson.
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Colorado’s Gabriel Landeskog will have a hearing for Boarding Chicago’s Kirby Dach.
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Edmonton’s Darnell Nurse will have a hearing today for Head-butting Los Angeles’ Phillip Danault.
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Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin will have a hearing Tuesday for High-sticking/Slashing Philadelphia’s Michael Raffl.
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Dallas’ Corey Perry will have a hearing Friday for Elbowing Nashville’s Ryan Ellis.
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Philadelphia’s Matt Niskanen will have a hearing today for Cross-checking Montreal’s Brendan Gallagher.
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Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for unsportsmanlike conduct on Arizona’s Conor Garland.
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Montreal’s Shea Weber has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Cross-checking Toronto’s Wayne Simmonds.
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St. Louis’ Ivan Barbashev has been suspended for one game for an Illegal Check to the Head on Boston’s Marcus Johansson.
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Boston’s Charlie McAvoy has been suspended for four games for an Illegal Check to the Head on Florida’s Oliver Ekman-Larsson.
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Washington's Brooks Orpik suspended three games for interference on Pittsburgh's Olli Maatta. Video:
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Tampa Bay’s Mikhail Sergachev will have a hearing today for an Illegal Check to the Head on Toronto’s Mitchell Marner.
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NY Islanders’ Mathew Barzal has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Cross-checking Tampa Bay’s Jan Rutta.
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Boston’s Taylor Hall has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Roughing Toronto’s Ilya Lyubushkin.
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St. Louis’ Oskar Sundqvist will have a hearing today for Boarding Boston’s Matt Grzelcyk.
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Edmonton’s Connor McDavid has been suspended for two games for an Illegal Check to the Head on NY Islanders’ Nick Leddy.
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Following a hearing today, the DOPS has determined that Brendan Lemieux will be suspended for his hit on Joonas Donskoi Wednesday night. The precise parameters of the suspension will be determined and announced once resumption of play guidelines have been established.
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Florida’s Sam Bennett has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Cross-checking against Toronto’s Michael Bunting.
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Vegas’ Ryan Reaves has been suspended for two games for Roughing/ Unsportsmanlike Conduct on Colorado’s Ryan Graves.
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Vegas’ Ryan Reaves will have a hearing today for an Illegal Check to the Head on Vancouver’s Tyler Motte.
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NY Islanders’ Mathew Barzal has been fined $2,500, for Unsportsmanlike Conduct during last night’s game against Toronto.
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Florida’s Matthew Tkachuk has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Cross-checking against Boston’s Garnet Hathaway.
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Edmonton’s Darnell Nurse has been suspended for one game for Head-butting Los Angeles’ Phillip Danault.
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Calgary’s Nikita Zadorov will have a hearing today for an Illegal Check to the Head on Dallas’ Luke Glendening.
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NY Rangers’ Matt Rempe will have a hearing today for elbowing New Jersey’s Jonas Siegenthaler.
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San Jose’s Joe Thornton will have a hearing today for an Illegal Check to the Head on Vegas’ Tomas Nosek.
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Nazem Kadri’s in-person hearing will be held tomorrow afternoon at the NHL’s New York office.
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Toronto’s Kyle Clifford will have a hearing today for Boarding Tampa Bay’s Ross Colton.
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NY Rangers’ Artemi Panarin has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Unsportsmanlike Conduct during yesterday’s game with the Boston Bruins.
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Toronto’s Jason Spezza has been suspended for six games for Kneeing Winnipeg’s Neal Pionk.
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Columbus' Matt Calvert will have a hearing today for cross-checking Pittsburgh's Tom Kuhnhackl.
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Detroit’s Tyler Bertuzzi has been suspended for two games for unsportsmanlike conduct/roughing on Colorado’s Matt Calvert.
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Edmonton’s Zack Kassian has been fined $2,500 for Unsportsmanlike Conduct during last night’s game against Colorado.
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Minnesota’s Ryan Hartman has been fined $4,250, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Unsportsmanlike Conduct during last night’s game against Edmonton.
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Minnesota’s Jared Spurgeon has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Cross-checking St. Louis’ Pavel Buchnevich.
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Florida’s Matthew Tkachuk will have a hearing today for High-sticking Los Angeles’ Jonathan Quick.
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