Los Angeles Kings ahead Tanner Jeannot has been suspended for 3 video games by the NHL Division of Participant Security for an unlawful test to the pinnacle of Vancouver Canucks winger Brock Boeser.
Jeannot obtained a match penalty at 10:44 of the primary interval within the Kings’ 4-2 loss to the Canucks in Los Angeles on Thursday night time. As Boeser handed the puck close to the crimson line, Jeannot delivered a excessive hit together with his proper shoulder that caught Boeser’s head.
“For the refs to name 5 minutes, clearly a harmful hit,” stated defenseman Quinn Hughes after the sport.
The NHL dominated that Jeannot “cuts throughout the entrance of Boeser’s physique, lacking his core and making his head the principle level of contact, on successful the place such contact was unavoidable.”
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The hit met two necessities for an unlawful test to the pinnacle: that the pinnacle is the principle level of contact, regardless that there’s contact with different elements of Boeser’s physique; and that whereas Boeser was eligible to be hit, Jeannot took the fallacious method to ship what was deemed an unlawful test.
This was solely Jeannot’s second run-in with the NHL Division of Participant Security. He was fined $2,000 for kneeing Ottawa’s Brady Tkachuk in March 2022, when Jeannot was a member of the Nashville Predators.
Underneath the phrases of the collective bargaining settlement, and based mostly on his common annual wage, Jeannot will forfeit $41,640.63. The cash goes to the Gamers’ Emergency Help Fund.
NHL gamers could attraction all on-ice self-discipline to commissioner Gary Bettman inside 48 hours of a ruling, however Jeannot cannot file for a subsequent attraction to a impartial arbitrator as a result of his suspension is lower than six video games.
Jeannot has one objective and one help in 15 video games for the Kings, who acquired him from the Tampa Bay Lightning throughout the offseason. He leads the NHL with 36 penalty minutes.
Boeser is tied for second on the Canucks in scoring with 11 factors (six objectives, 5 assists) in 12 video games.
