{"id":388556,"date":"2026-01-05T04:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388556\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T04:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:41:12","slug":"flames-beecher-jets-stanley-each-get-1-game-roughing-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388556\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames&#8217; Beecher, Jets&#8217; Stanley each get 1-game roughing bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; The NHL&#8217;s department of player safety suspended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/cgy\/calgary-flames\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4565251\/john-beecher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Beecher<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/wpg\/winnipeg-jets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4024968\/logan-stanley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Stanley<\/a> one game each for separate roughing incidents Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Beecher caught <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/nsh\/nashville-predators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3042048\/michael-mccarron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael McCarron<\/a> off-guard with a punch while McCarron was restrained by a linesman at 13:15 in the first period of Calgary&#8217;s 4-3 loss Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/47473560\/nhl-power-rankings-2025-26-best-teams-standings-best-stats-projections-pace-january-game\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/251224_nhl_power_new_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/47482235\/nhl-olympics-hockey-usa-canada-sweden-finland-roster-grades-snubs-surprises\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/r1595895_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>The bare-knuckle punch occurred moments after McCarron dropped his gloves and began swinging at Beecher as a scrum ensued near the Flames bench.<\/p>\n<p>Beecher, 24, received a roughing minor and a 10-minute misconduct at the time. He later left the game because of an injury after fighting Nashville&#8217;s <a data-player-guid=\"b7d9b90c-61c2-3d5e-4360-2c258c31823c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4233870\/nicolas-hague\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolas Hague<\/a> in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley, meanwhile, threw an ungloved punch to the face of an unsuspecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4319858\/brady-tkachuk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Tkachuk<\/a> 12:07 into the second period of Winnipeg&#8217;s 4-2 loss to the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley, 27, was assessed a roughing minor and an illegal equipment minor while Tkachuk, who was furious after receiving the blow, was given a 10-minute misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Neither player had previously been suspended or fined in their NHL careers. Beecher has played 155 games, and Stanley has suited up in 242.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO &#8212; The NHL&#8217;s department of player safety suspended Calgary Flames forward John Beecher and Winnipeg Jets defenseman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-388556","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\/388556","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=388556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}