{"id":203583,"date":"2025-10-10T21:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203583\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:15:06","slug":"islanders-jonathan-drouin-to-have-player-safety-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203583\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders’ Jonathan Drouin To Have Player Safety Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

1:20 p.m.:\u00a0It\u2019s a one-game suspension for Drouin, the league announced<\/a>. In DOPS\u2019 video explanation of their decision, they assert there is \u201cno hockey purpose for Drouin\u2019s cross-check.\u201d Drouin asserted his cross-check was inadvertent in today\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n

9:26 a.m.: Jonathan Drouin<\/a>\u2019s Islanders debut was a multifaceted one. He got the club\u2019s first goal of the season in what ended up being a 4-3 loss to the Penguins, but was ejected with 15 seconds left in the contest for cross-checking Pittsburgh forward Connor Dewar<\/a>, costing them any chance at a game-tying goal. He\u2019s now going to have a hearing with the Department of Player Safety today and is facing a likely suspension, the league announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The play in question occurred after a whistle. As Drouin and Dewar were giving each other some shoves after play had stopped, Drouin raised his stick and delivered a high cross-check to Dewar\u2019s face (video via Frank Seravalli of Bleacher Report<\/a>). Suspensions for similar incidents over the past few years have usually warranted only one or two games. For someone without a history with DOPS aside from a $5K fine in 2022, it stands to reason his ban will be on the lighter side if he receives one at all. Since his hearing is over the phone, he\u2019s only eligible to be suspended for up to five games.<\/p>\n

Aside from that, it was a solid debut from Drouin after signing a two-year, $8MM contract<\/a> in free agency. His goal was his only shot, but he had four attempts, logging almost 20 minutes of ice time while suiting up on the team\u2019s top even-strength and power-play unit. The Isles outshot Pittsburgh 6-4 with Drouin on the ice at 5v5 and controlled 53.6% of expected goals, according to Natural Stat Trick<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If he misses time, rookie\u00a0Max Shabanov<\/a> could see a promotion to top-line duties with Bo Horvat<\/a> and\u00a0Emil Heineman<\/a>. Shabanov started camp on that unit with Horvat and Drouin, but ended up starting the year in a third-line role while Heineman got a bump late in preseason. He also scored last night in what was his NHL debut. If he moves up,\u00a0Anthony Duclair<\/a>\u00a0could see a corresponding promotion to top-nine duties after playing opening night as New York\u2019s fourth-line left wing. One of\u00a0Marc Gatcomb<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Kyle MacLean<\/a>\u00a0would enter the lineup after sitting as scratches for the opener.<\/p>\n

Drouin still counts against the active roster while he\u2019s suspended, so the Islanders wouldn\u2019t be able to make a corresponding recall unless they free up a spot somewhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1:20 p.m.:\u00a0It\u2019s a one-game suspension for Drouin, the league announced. In DOPS\u2019 video explanation of their decision, they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,92395,750,82],"class_list":["post-203583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jonathan-drouin","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203583","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=203583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}