{"id":183136,"date":"2025-10-01T18:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183136\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:23:07","slug":"ottawa-senators-nick-cousins-hayden-hodgson-fined-for-infractions-in-preseason-game-vs-montreal-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183136\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators Nick Cousins, Hayden Hodgson fined for infractions in preseason game vs. Montreal Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The NHL Department of Player Safety has fined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nick-cousins\/8476393\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nick-cousins\/8476393\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Cousins<\/a> $2,148.44, the maximum allowable amount under the CBA, for slashing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ivan-demidov\/8484984\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ivan-demidov\/8484984\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan Demidov<\/a> in the hand during Tuesday\u2019s 5-0 preseason loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Demidov was in visible pain after the slash and would eventually leave the game. Cousins was assessed a minor for slashing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s no need for that. It\u2019s an exhibition game, both teams are trying to get ready for a long season. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any need for that in the game,\u201d Canadiens head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/martin-st-louis\/8466378\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/martin-st-louis\/8466378\" target=\"_blank\">Martin St. Louis<\/a> said of the slash to Demidov. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There has been no official update on Demidov\u2019s injury status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/hayden-hodgson\/8478173\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/hayden-hodgson\/8478173\" target=\"_blank\">Hayden Hodgson<\/a> was fined $2,018.23 for boarding Habs forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alex-newhook\/8481618\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alex-newhook\/8481618\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Newhook<\/a> on Tuesday. Hodgson was assessed a boarding minor on the play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was a chippy preseason affair between the At;antic Division rivals, as the clubs racked up 150 combined penalty minutes, nine fighting majors, and eight misconduct penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL Department of Player Safety has fined Ottawa Senators forward Nick Cousins $2,148.44, the maximum allowable amount&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,78846,448,84870,82],"class_list":["post-183136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-9","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}