{"id":345989,"date":"2025-12-13T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/345989\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:40:09","slug":"five-players-from-marlies-rocket-suspended-after-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/345989\/","title":{"rendered":"Five players from Marlies, Rocket suspended after brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs-Montreal Canadiens rivalry has spilled down to the AHL level.<\/p>\n<p>Five players from the NHL teams&#8217; affiliates were suspended Saturday as a result of multiple incidents between the Toronto Marlies and the Laval Rocket, the AHL announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Rocket&#8217;s Alex Belzile (three games), Laurent Dauphin (three), Joshua Roy (three) and Sammy Blais (one) and Marlies&#8217; <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"5ff0035b-9e2f-4e2e-be2b-fe6eec1228ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/michael-pezzetta\/5ff0035b-9e2f-4e2e-be2b-fe6eec1228ab\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Michael Pezzetta<\/a> (three) all received supplemental discipline for their actions at the end of the second period in Friday&#8217;s 5-2 victory for Laval.<\/p>\n<p>The incident started when Pezzetta caught Marc Del Gaizo with a high check with 1.5 seconds left in the frame. Rocket forward Florian Xhekaj took exception to the hit and proceeded engage in a spirited tilt with Pezzetta.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after the fight, the Rocket bench engaged with Pezzetta as he skated by, causing a major brawl between the two teams up against the bench.<\/p>\n<p>The AHL said that Pezzetta was suspended as a &#8220;consequence of an illegal check to the head of an opponent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Montreal Canadien and Rocket players is eligible to return to the Marlies&#8217; lineup on Dec. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Belzile, Dauphin, Roy and Blais were suspended for &#8220;consequence of leaving the players&#8217; bench during an altercation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Rocket players can return on Dec. 27, while Blais is eligible on Dec. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs-Montreal Canadiens rivalry has spilled down to the AHL level. Five players from the NHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-345989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}