NEW YORK (AP) — Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy has been suspended four games by the NHL for an unlawful check to the head of Florida’s Oliver Ekman-Larsson.
The NHL’s Department of Participant Safety announced the ban Tuesday, indicating right after a disciplinary listening to that McAvoy produced Ekman-Larsson’s head the basic principle point of content on a hit in which head get in touch with was avoidable.
McAvoy strike Ekman-Larsson in the head with his remaining shoulder midway via the 3rd period of time of the teams’ game Monday night time. McAvoy was ejected with a match penalty, and Ekman-Larsson did not return just after leaving the ice.
The Panthers also took challenge with a hit that McAvoy shipped on Carter Verhaeghe in the 1st interval. Questioned soon after the video game what his see of the hit to Ekman-Larsson was, Florida mentor Paul Maurice said, “I believed it was particularly like the strike on Verhaeghe in the initial.”
McAvoy scored the tying goal about two minutes prior to the strike on Ekman-Larsson.
It is McAvoy’s 2nd NHL suspension for a head shot and the initially since acquiring a person video game for an unlawful verify on Columbus Blue Jackets ahead Josh Anderson in the next spherical of the 2019 playoffs. He has also been fined when ahead of in his six-plus calendar year expert profession.
McAvoy will forfeit $197,917 in income and, barring attraction, won’t be qualified to perform once more till Boston’s activity Nov. 11 at the Montreal Canadiens.
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