{"id":286734,"date":"2025-11-12T05:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286734\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T05:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:31:12","slug":"islanders-prospect-kashawn-aitcheson-suspended-2-games-by-ohl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286734\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders prospect Kashawn Aitcheson suspended 2 games by OHL"},"content":{"rendered":"

A top Islanders prospect was suspended for two games after a dustup with a fan.<\/p>\n

Kashawn Aitcheson, the 17th overall pick in the 2025 NHL Draft, was handed the ban by the Ontario Hockey League after he was caught throwing water at a fan who appeared to be chastising his Barrie Colts teammates as they came off the ice after a shootout loss to the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The game was particularly contentious after the Colts let a 3-1 lead slip away before Greyhounds forward Marco Mignosa taunted Barrie after he scored the shootout winner, drawing both teams onto the ice before things calmed down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As the Colts exited the ice, a fan in a red jersey and backward hat was shouting at the visiting Barrie players before Aitcheson flung water at the individual using his bottle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"KashawnKashawn Aitcheson dumped water on the fan. Trent Bossineau<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t clear if anything the fan said was directly aimed at Aitcheson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The \u201cinteracting with a spectator,\u201d as the OHL described it, was enough to earn him a two-game ban.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The OHL\u2019s rule book<\/a> states that \u201cany player or non-playing Club personnel who physically interferes with the spectators, becomes involved in an altercation with a spectator, or throws any object at a spectator, shall automatically incur a game misconduct penalty and the Referee shall report all such infractions to the Commissioner who shall have full power to impose such further penalty as he shall deem appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York Islanders defenseman Kashawn Aitcheson speaks to members of the media in the locker room during Development Camp at Northwell Health Ice Center in East Meadow, N.Y. on Monday, June 30, 2025. Heather Khalifa for the NY Post<\/p>\n

The ban will see Aitcheson miss games against Saginaw on Thursday and Peterborough on Saturday, and curtails the defenseman\u2019s seven-game point streak.<\/p>\n

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Aitcheson also had a six-game goal streak snapped on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old has been the top offensive defenseman in the OHL, leading the circuit in goals for blueliners (15) and sitting second in points among defensemen (24).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Prior to the draft, Aitcheson was compared to former Rangers defenseman Jacob Trouba.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Islanders star rookie Matthew Schaefer described Aitcheson as \u201ca great guy to have on your team right there. You don\u2019t want to play against him, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A top Islanders prospect was suspended for two games after a dustup with a fan. Kashawn Aitcheson, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[394,385,99],"class_list":["post-286734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286734","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=286734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}