Oct 10, 2025, 02:48 PM ET<\/p>\n
NEW YORK — New York Islanders<\/a> winger Jonathan Drouin<\/a> has been suspended one game for cross-checking Pittsburgh’s Connor Dewar<\/a> in the head late in Thursday night’s game.<\/p>\n The NHL’s Department of Player Safety announced the ban Friday after holding a disciplinary hearing to review the play.<\/p>\n Drouin, 30, was given a five-minute major penalty and ejected with a game misconduct for the cross-check in a post-whistle scrum with 15 seconds left that sent Dewar to the ice Thursday night.<\/p>\n This is Drouin’s first career suspension in the league. He will miss the Islanders’ home opener Saturday night against Washington. He’ll forfeit $20,833 in salary, with the money going to the Players’ Emergency Assistance Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 10, 2025, 02:48 PM ET NEW YORK — New York Islanders winger Jonathan Drouin has been suspended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-216217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}