{"id":554558,"date":"2026-03-23T04:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554558\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T04:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:04:08","slug":"florida-panthers-a-j-greer-suspended-three-games-for-hit-on-connor-zary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554558\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers\u2019 A.J. Greer suspended three games for hit on Connor Zary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/aj-greer\/8478421\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/aj-greer\/8478421\" target=\"_blank\">A.J. Greer<\/a> has been suspended three games for shoving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a>\u2019 forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-zary\/8482074\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-zary\/8482074\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Zary<\/a> into the boards from behind. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The NHL announced the punishment on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The play occurred 11:11 into the third period of Florida\u2019s 4-1 loss at Calgary on Friday night. The 29-year-old Greer was assessed a major penalty for interference and a game misconduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Greer has a career-high 13 goals and 24 points in 68 games this season. He will miss games against Seattle, Minnesota and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" target=\"_blank\">New York Islanders<\/a>, and he forfeits US$13,281.24 in salary that goes to the Players\u2019 Emergency Assistance Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Florida Panthers forward A.J. Greer has been suspended three games for shoving Calgary Flames\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[214373,49,48,80960,82],"class_list":["post-554558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-a-j-greer-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478421","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-florida-panthers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-13","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554558","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=554558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}