{"id":209233,"date":"2025-10-13T06:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/209233\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T06:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:48:19","slug":"nhl-fines-canucks-defenceman-myers-for-slashing-mcdavid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/209233\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL fines Canucks defenceman Myers for slashing McDavid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/hockey\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hockey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks defenceman Tyler Myers has been fined $2,500 US for slashing against Edmonton Oilers forward Connor McDavid, the NHL Department of Safety announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Myers appeared to hit Oilers captain in the groin area with his stick<\/p>\n<p>CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Oct 12, 2025 3:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 hours ago<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"A close up of a male ice hockey player.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760338099_329_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Canucks defenceman Tyler Myers has been fined $2,500 US for slashing Oilers forward Connor McDavid during the third period of Edmonton&#8217;s 3-1 win on Saturday night at Rogers Place. (Simon Fearn-Imagn Images via Reuters Connect)<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks defenceman Tyler Myers has been fined $2,500 US for slashing against Edmonton Oilers forward Connor McDavid, the NHL Department of Safety announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at 8:25 of the third period of the Canucks&#8217; 3-1 loss to the Oilers on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>As McDavid approached the net without the puck, Myers appeared to hit McDavid in the groin area with his stick.<\/p>\n<p>No penalty was called on the play but Myers was called for delay of game at 9:07 of the frame. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hockey Vancouver Canucks defenceman Tyler Myers has been fined $2,500 US for slashing against Edmonton Oilers forward Connor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-209233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209233","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=209233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}