{"id":931040,"date":"2026-10-13T04:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931040\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T04:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:04:09","slug":"devils-mantha-assessed-major-penalty-for-boarding-senators-matinpalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931040\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils&#8217; Mantha assessed major penalty for boarding Senators&#8217; Matinpalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mantha was assessed a five-minute major for boarding Senators defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/nikolas-matinpalo\/779f22d8-af2d-48a8-a3af-1bb3b2780a32\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"779f22d8-af2d-48a8-a3af-1bb3b2780a32\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nikolas Matinpalo<\/a> with just under 10 minutes remaining in the first period.<\/p>\n<p>The Senators later <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Media_Sens\/status\/2109798134599544919?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> that Matinpalo was ruled out for the remainder of the game with an upper body injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty obvious what the injury is,&#8221; head coach Travis Green said after the 4-1 win. &#8220;We&#8217;ll wait to see how he feels tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hit came on a play at the New Jersey blue line, as Mantha chased Matinpalo and a loose puck towards the boards before pushing the defenceman from behind and down to the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Players on both teams came together in a scrum as Matinpalo stayed down after the hit.<\/p>\n<p>After getting to his feet and leaving the ice, Matinpalo went straight down the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>The Devils ended up killing off the five-minute penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Mantha is in his first campaign with New Jersey after signing a two-year deal with the Devils in the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old had yet to find the scoresheet in New Jersey&#8217;s first four games of the season, averaging 13:40 of ice time per night.<\/p>\n<p>The Senators return home to host the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mantha was assessed a five-minute major for boarding Senators defenceman Nikolas Matinpalo with just under 10 minutes remaining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-931040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931040","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=931040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}