{"id":331505,"date":"2025-12-05T06:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331505\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:21:14","slug":"buffalos-dahlin-avoids-suspension-for-hit-on-flyers-zegras-was-it-right-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331505\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo’s Dahlin Avoids Suspension For Hit On Flyers’ Zegras; Was It Right Call?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did the officials and the league get this one right?<\/p>\n

PublishedDecember 4, 2025 5:00 PM EST\u2022UpdatedDecember 4, 2025 3:32 PM EST<\/p>\n

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The NHL’s Eastern Conference is a complete logjam right now, with every team in the conference still very much in the playoff race a week after Thanksgiving. This means we’re going to see some intensity, and that’s what we got on Thursday night between the Philadelphia Flyers and Buffalo Sabres<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin<\/a> got a little carried away.<\/p>\n

The Sabres opened the scoring, but fell victim to three Flyers goals \u2014 two on power plays \u2014 in under a minute.<\/p>\n

READ: STARS DROP \u201999 THROWBACK JERSEY, TROLL SABRES WITH NOD TO INFAMOUS HULL GOAL<\/a><\/p>\n

In the second period, the Flyers tacked on two more, and the Sabres scored one of their own to make the score 5-2, and that might be why Dahlin was a little heated.<\/p>\n

Late in the period, Dahlin backchecked Flyers<\/a> forward Trevor Zegras, who took a shot and peeled off into the corner. Dahlin drove him into the boards from behind, and all hell broke loose behind the Sabres’ net.<\/p>\n

Dahlin was handed a five-minute major, which was reviewed and upheld. This also meant he was assessed a game misconduct. Meanwhile, Zegras was okay and stayed in the game, which the Flyers won 5-2.<\/p>\n

The first thing that’s up for debate is whether or not that hit was worthy of a five-minute major, and I think the answer is yes\u2026 but only barely.<\/p>\n

Zegras definitely had his numbers to him, and it was a hit from behind, but I think there’s a compelling case for that to have been a two-minute minor.<\/p>\n

Of course, as TNT analyst Brian Boucher noted on the broadcast for this game, had Dahlin stayed in the games, things could have gotten ugly.<\/p>\n

The question on Thursday was whether or not that play would earn Dahlin some supplemental discipline from the league, but The Athletic’s Kevin Kurz reported that this will not happen.<\/p>\n

The Department of Player Safety has a reputation for coming to some head-scratching conclusions, but this one it got right.<\/p>\n

The five-minute major and a game was a good enough punishment that a suspension would’ve been overkill.<\/p>\n

However, you may want to mark December 18 on your calendar, because it’s the next time the Flyers and Sabres meet up.<\/p>\n

Something tells me the Broad Street Bullies won’t forget about this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did the officials and the league get this one right? PublishedDecember 4, 2025 5:00 PM EST\u2022UpdatedDecember 4, 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-331505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331505","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=331505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}