{"id":436456,"date":"2026-01-27T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436456\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:41:07","slug":"nylander-of-maple-leafs-fined-for-inappropriate-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436456\/","title":{"rendered":"Nylander of Maple Leafs fined for inappropriate gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Toronto Maple Leafs forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/william-nylander-8477939\" title=\"William Nylander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Nylander<\/a> has been fined $5,000 for making an inappropriate gesture during NHL Game No. 819 in Toronto on Sunday, Jan. 25, the National Hockey League announced today.<\/p>\n<p>Nylander&#8217;s gesture is a violation of the League\u2019s policy which prohibits inappropriate and offensive remarks, and the use of obscene, profane or abusive language or gestures in the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNylander directed an inappropriate gesture at a television camera operator while the camera was directed at Mr. Nylander and his teammates in the press box. The gesture was shown live on-air during the game broadcast,&#8221; said NHL Senior Vice President of Player Safety George Parros. \u201cThis serves as a reminder the code of conduct governing Players extends throughout the arena at NHL games and in public game situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The money goes to the Players\u2019 Emergency Assistance Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Toronto Maple Leafs forward William Nylander has been fined $5,000 for making an inappropriate gesture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-436456","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\/436456","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=436456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}