The OHL is taking another crack at reducing the amount of fights in league play.<\/p>\n
The major-junior hockey league unveiled amendments to the OHL’s discipline policy governing fighting penalties for the 2026-27 season on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Here’s a look at some of the key guidelines:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Teams will be fined $5,000 per fight after it reaches a 35-fight limit. Previously, there was a maximum threshold of 50 fights and a maximum fine of $2,000 for each additional fight.<\/p>\n
\u2022 A player can have a maximum of three fighting majors between the start of the regular season and Dec. 31. An additional three fights are allowed from Jan. 1 through the end of the season. Any fighting major beyond that limit results in a minimum two-game suspension.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The league says it will strengthen its discipline for premeditated fights before the drop of the puck as well as for second fights within the same stoppage.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Each OHL team also\u00a0remains\u00a0subject to an in-game threshold of three major penalties for fighting, with a sanction of $500 per fight beyond the limit. <\/p>\n
The CHL’s three member leagues \u2014 the OHL, QMJHL and WHL \u2014 all have different rules for fighting.<\/p>\n
The QMJHL has the strongest rules, handing out a game misconduct to any player involved in a fight, among other consequences. The league introduced that plan in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The OHL is taking another crack at reducing the amount of fights in league play. The major-junior hockey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-864390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864390","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=864390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}