{"id":642369,"date":"2026-05-02T05:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642369\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:19:08","slug":"bruins-mcavoy-takes-swing-at-sabres-benson-late-in-elimination-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642369\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins\u2019 McAvoy takes swing at Sabres\u2019 Benson late in elimination loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/charlie-mcavoy\/8479325\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/charlie-mcavoy\/8479325\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie McAvoy<\/a> could be facing supplemental discipline from the NHL Department of Player Safety after a stick-swinging incident late in Friday\u2019s Game 6 elimination loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McAvoy and Sabres winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/zach-benson\/8484145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/zach-benson\/8484145\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Benson<\/a> were racing for an icing late in Buffalo\u2019s 4-1 win when Benson appeared to trip the American defenceman, sending him hard into the end boards. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McAvoy quickly got up and took a baseball swing with his stick towards Benson as a scuffle between the two sides ensued. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 28-year-old McAvoy recorded two assists over six games against the Sabres after netting a career-high 61 points in the regular season, including 11 goals and 50 assists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McAvoy has spent his entire 10-year NHL career in Boston after the Bruins selected him 14th overall in 2016. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McAvoy won gold with the United States at the Olympics earlier this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins defenceman Charlie McAvoy could be facing supplemental discipline from the NHL Department of Player Safety after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,96269,96397,49,48,132712,448,82],"class_list":["post-642369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-boston-bruins-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-6","tag-buffalo-sabres-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-7","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charlie-mcavoy-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8479325","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642369","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=642369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}