{"id":380736,"date":"2025-12-30T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380736\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:20:25","slug":"islanders-f-mathew-barzal-fined-5000-for-two-handed-slash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380736\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders F Mathew Barzal fined $5,000 for two-handed slash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec 29, 2025, 07:11 PM ET<\/p>\n

New York Islanders<\/a> forward Mathew Barzal<\/a> was fined $5,000 on Monday, the maximum allowable under the collective bargaining agreement, for his two-handed slash to Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> left wing Mason Marchment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NHL’s Department of Player Safety made the announcement a day after Columbus’ 4-2<\/a> victory at Nationwide Arena, in which Marchment was called for a tripping penalty when he dropped New York rookie Matthew Schaefer<\/a> in the second period in what appeared to be a knee-on-knee hit.<\/p>\n

Barzal’s slash appeared to be in reaction to Marchment’s trip. Islanders coach Patrick Roy was asked about the sequence in his postgame media availability.<\/p>\n

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“Well, we thought it was a knee,” Roy said of Marchment’s hit on Schaefer. “And then, we’re never going to blame a teammate for going to try and defend a teammate.”<\/p>\n

Schaefer, 18, this year’s No. 1 pick, is in the midst of a standout season for New York. He has nine goals and 24 points while averaging 23:45 time on the ice.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jackets defeated the Ottawa Senators<\/a> 4-1<\/a> on Monday night. The Islanders will take on the Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 29, 2025, 07:11 PM ET New York Islanders forward Mathew Barzal was fined $5,000 on Monday, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-380736","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\/380736","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=380736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}