{"id":672281,"date":"2026-05-16T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/672281\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:25:09","slug":"golden-knights-forfeit-draft-pick-john-tortorella-fined-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/672281\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights Forfeit Draft Pick, John Tortorella Fined \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Hockey League didn\u2019t let the Vegas Golden Knights celebrate their Western Conference Final berth for too long. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/media.nhl.com\/public\/news\/19822\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to an announcement<\/a> from the league office, the Vegas Golden Knights will forfeit their 2026 second-round pick, and head coach <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/staff\/334\/john-tortorella\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Tortorella<\/a> will be fined $100K for \u201cflagrant violations\u201d of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs Media Regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Although the punishment was unknown, this was an expected outcome for many. In the announcement, the league shared, \u201cThe imposition of these penalties comes after previous warnings were issued to the Club regarding their compliance with the Media Regulations and other associated policies.\u201d After last night\u2019s series-clinching win, Vegas closed the locker room doors to the media, and Tortorella refused to meet with them.<\/p>\n<p>According to the league, the Golden Knights will have the ability to appeal the punishment, though they likely won\u2019t have much leverage, given that they\u2019ve been warned multiple times. Still, instead of arguing for a complete erasure of the punishment, Vegas may argue themselves into a slap on the wrist with an understanding that a harsher punishment will be had if something like this happens again.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the loss of a second-round pick puts Vegas in a deep hole. Although they normally trade away their draft capital or trade away the prospects, they now lose one for nothing. After today\u2019s news, the Golden Knights don\u2019t have another second-round pick at their disposal until the 2030 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Knights <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GoldenKnights\/status\/2055389884186345572\" rel=\"nofollow\">offered a press release<\/a> of their own, saying, \u201cThe Golden Knights are aware of today\u2019s announcement from the NHL regarding the postgame media availability following Game 6 in Anaheim. The organization will have no further comment.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Hockey League didn\u2019t let the Vegas Golden Knights celebrate their Western Conference Final berth for too&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,219395,44,4247,41,39,42,40,767],"class_list":["post-672281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-john-tortorella","tag-news","tag-newsstand","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672281","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=672281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}