{"id":556197,"date":"2026-03-22T03:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556197\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:19:07","slug":"greer-stolarz-quick-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556197\/","title":{"rendered":"Greer, Stolarz, Quick \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a somewhat surprising development, the NHL\u2019s Department of Player Safety announced<\/a> it would have a phone hearing for Florida Panthers forward A.J. Greer<\/a> for his hit against Calgary Flames forward Connor Zary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it means that Greer won\u2019t be given a suspension any longer than five games. On the play in question, Greer was assessed a two-minute minor for hooking, a five-minute major for interference, and a 10-minute game misconduct. Essentially, Greer hit Zary from behind into the boards, well before there was any expectation of incidental contact.<\/p>\n

At the very least, it suggests that the NHL DoPS isn\u2019t feeling any outside pressure to change the way they assess supplementary discipline. After Anaheim Ducks defenseman Radko Gudas<\/a> was suspended<\/a> for five games for delivering a knee-to-knee hit on Toronto Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews<\/a>, who suffered a season-ending injury due to the incident, there was an outcry from fans and media for the DoPS to impose stricter discipline to prevent such situations in the future.<\/p>\n

Other Eastern Conference notes:<\/p>\n

Netminder Anthony Stolarz<\/a> did not make his scheduled start tonight because of an injury suffered in warm-ups. Before the game, the Maple Leafs\u00a0announced<\/a> that Stolarz was struck in the neck by a puck during warm-ups and was subsequently taken to a local hospital for further testing.\u00a0Toronto has not provided any additional updates regarding Stolarz since.
\nThere is additional context regarding the New York Rangers\u2019 recall<\/a> of netminder Dylan Garand<\/a> yesterday. According to Andrew Crane of the New York Post<\/a>, veteran netminder Jonathan Quick<\/a> is dealing with a minor upper-body ailment. Regardless, the expectation is that Garand will make his NHL debut while Quick is sidelined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a somewhat surprising development, the NHL\u2019s Department of Player Safety announced it would have a phone hearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[258994,80499,64,63,32858,3274,3899,59629,3617,575,24246,85,2370],"class_list":["post-556197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-a-j-greer","tag-anthony-stolarz","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-connor-zary","tag-florida-panthers","tag-injury","tag-jonathan-quick","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-player-safety","tag-sports","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556197","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=556197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}