{"id":375253,"date":"2025-12-29T03:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/375253\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T03:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:50:10","slug":"islanders-mat-barzal-ejected-after-swinging-stick-at-blue-jackets-in-wild-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/375253\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders&#8217; Mat Barzal ejected after swinging stick at Blue Jackets in wild scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Mat Barzal was ejected from the Islanders\u2019 game against the Blue Jackets on Sunday after using his stick as a baseball bat and swinging it onto Mason Marchment 1:37 into the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Marchment had taken a roughing penalty for a late hit on Matthew Schaefer in the first period and tripped him early in the second, prompting a reaction from the Islanders.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Pulock had words with Marchment before Barzal put both hands on his stick and swung it across Marchment\u2019s knees.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38040722\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-168.png\" alt=\"Mat Barzal winds up his stick to swing at Mason Marchment during a game on Sunday.\" class=\"wp-image-38040722\"  \/>Mat Barzal winds up his stick to swing at Mason Marchment during a game on Sunday. X @formxle<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38040725\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-28-182814.png\" alt=\"An ice hockey player in a black and white uniform lies on the ice next to a fallen stick, while another player in an orange and blue uniform skates past.\" class=\"wp-image-38040725\"  \/>Mason Marchment crumbles on the ice after Mat Barzal swung his stick at him during the Islanders game on Sunday. X @formxle<\/p>\n<p>Three Columbus players immediately converged on Barzal in response.<\/p>\n<p>Marchment was given a two-minute tripping penalty and Barzal was given a five-minute major and game misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>It would not be a surprise if Barzal was fined and suspended for the Islanders\u2019 game on Tuesday in Chicago as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Mat Barzal was ejected from the Islanders\u2019 game against the Blue Jackets on Sunday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[392,75619,394,385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-375253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","9":"tag-mathew-barzal","10":"tag-new-york-islanders","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375253","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=375253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}