{"id":645179,"date":"2026-05-03T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645179\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:04:12","slug":"boston-bruins-d-charlie-mcavoy-offered-in-person-hearing-after-slashing-incident-with-buffalo-sabres-zach-benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645179\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins D Charlie McAvoy offered in-person hearing after slashing incident with Buffalo Sabres\u2019 Zach Benson"},"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> has been offered an in-person hearing with the NHL\u2019s Department of Player Safety after swinging his stick at <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>\u2019 forward <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> late in Friday\u2019s Game 6 elimination loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The in-person hearing, as opposed to a phone hearing, indicated that McAvoy could be suspended for six or more games at the start of the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Charlie McAvoy has been offered an in-person hearing with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@NHLPlayerSafety<\/a> for slashing Zach Benson, which means he could be suspended six or more games to start the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/2050653909807456480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McAvoy and Sabres winger Benson were racing for an icing late in Buffalo\u2019s 4-1 win when Benson appeared to trip the 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 scoring 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. He won gold with the United States at the Olympics earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins defenceman Charlie McAvoy has been offered an in-person hearing with the NHL\u2019s Department of Player Safety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,96269,49,48,132712,448,82],"class_list":["post-645179","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-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\/645179","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=645179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645179\/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=645179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}