{"id":203351,"date":"2025-10-10T19:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203351\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:04:08","slug":"islanders-jonathan-drouin-suspended-one-game-for-cross-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203351\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders&#8217; Jonathan Drouin suspended one game for cross-check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 30-year-old forward has been suspended one game for cross-checking Penguins&#8217; Connor Dewar on Thursday, the NHL Department of Player Safety <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NHLPlayerSafety\/status\/1976714371402186966\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>During a net-side scrum with 14 seconds left in the game, Drouin delivered a cross-check that hit Dewar in the head. He was assessed a major penalty and a game misconduct on the play.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the game, Drouin scored his first goal as an Islander off a slick feed from rookie Matthew Schaefer.<\/p>\n<p>The DoPS cited that there is &#8220;no hockey purpose&#8221; for the blow, and despite Drouin&#8217;s assertion that it was unintentional, &#8220;players are responsible for their sticks at all times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is Drouin&#8217;s first career suspension in the league. He will miss the Islanders\u2019 home opener Saturday night against Washington. He&#8217;ll forfeit $20,833 in salary, with the money going to the Players\u2019 Emergency Assistance Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Over 12 NHL seasons, Drouin has been fined just once for cross-checking in 608 games. He&#8217;s totalled 108 goals and 267 assists between the Islanders, Avalanche, Canadiens and Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>The Winger signed in Long Island on a two-year, $8-million deal in the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;with files from the Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 30-year-old forward has been suspended one game for cross-checking Penguins&#8217; Connor Dewar on Thursday, the NHL Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-203351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203351","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=203351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}