{"id":443723,"date":"2026-01-28T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443723\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:08:08","slug":"washington-capitals-brandon-duhaime-fined-2500-for-unsportsmanlike-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443723\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals Brandon Duhaime fined $2,500 for unsportsmanlike conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brandon-duhaime\/8479520\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brandon-duhaime\/8479520\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Duhaime<\/a> was fined $2,500 for unsportsmanlike conduct for poking Seattle\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jacob-melanson\/8482874\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jacob-melanson\/8482874\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Melanson<\/a> while on the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The NHL\u2019s Department of Player Safety announced the supplemental discipline Wednesday. The department, led by retired enforcer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/george-parros\/8468095\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/george-parros\/8468095\" target=\"_blank\">George Parros<\/a>, recently took over control of all the league\u2019s in-arena disciplinary decisions, some of which were previously handled by hockey operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Duhaime made contact with Melanson while the Kraken player was skating by with just over seven minutes left in the second period of the teams\u2019 game Tuesday night. Melanson reached for his right arm and left the ice immediately but remained in the game, and no penalty was called on the play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Duhaime started a fight with Melanson with just over a minute left in the Capitals\u2019 5-1 loss and got an extra minor penalty for roughing. Duhaime, 28, is a pending unrestricted free agent and could be dealt ahead of the March 6 deadline if Washington opts to sell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Washington Capitals forward Brandon Duhaime was fined $2,500 for unsportsmanlike conduct for poking Seattle\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,230402,575,85,230401],"class_list":["post-443723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brandon-duhaime-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8479520","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-washington-capitals-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443723","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=443723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}