{"id":618746,"date":"2026-05-02T06:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618746\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:27:09","slug":"charlie-mcavoy-ejected-after-baseball-swing-slash-at-zach-benson-in-boston-bruins-elimination-loss-to-buffalo-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618746\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie McAvoy ejected after baseball-swing slash at Zach Benson in Boston Bruins\u2019 elimination loss to Buffalo Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie McAvoy<\/a> made sure to try to leave his mark on the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs as\u00a0the\u00a0Buffalo Sabres<\/a>\u00a0eliminated him and the\u00a0Boston Bruins<\/a> from the first round on Friday night.<\/p>\n

As the Bruins unsuccessfully tried to battle back from a 4-1 deficit in Game 6 with their netminder pulled, McAvoy skated back to touch up on a Sabres\u2019 icing with 1:31 remaining in regulation. McAvoy won the race, but Buffalo\u2019s Zach Benson<\/a> tried to beat McAvoy to the finish line, taking out the defender\u2019s feet from under him and sending him careening into the boards.<\/p>\n

McAvoy was enraged by what he likely perceived as a purposeful slewfoot and saw red. After getting up, he two-handed slashed Benson up high and threw a right cross punch that kicked off a scrum.<\/p>\n

Benson, unhurt by the slash, laughed at McAvoy from the penalty box as the irate rearguard was led off the ice.<\/p>\n

After the dust settled, McAvoy was assessed a game misconduct, ejecting him from the rest of the game, and a five-minute major penalty for slashing. Benson was also issued a two-minute minor penalty for tripping.<\/p>\n

In terms of a potential suspension, any supplemental discipline that McAvoy is to face from the NHL\u2019s Department of Player Safety will come into effect at the beginning of the 2026-27 campaign.<\/p>\n

Benson had points (1g, 1a) in the Game 6 victory.<\/p>\n

With the win, Buffalo advances to the second round for the first time since 2007, when they fell in the Eastern Conference Final to the Ottawa Senators<\/a>. They\u2019ll take on the winner of the Montreal Canadiens<\/a>\u2013Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> series, which is set for Game 7 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

McAvoy finished the series with two assists in six games. David Pastrnak<\/a> scored Boston\u2019s lone goal in Game 6, the only Bruins player to score more than two goals in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie McAvoy made sure to try to leave his mark on the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs as\u00a0the\u00a0Buffalo Sabres\u00a0eliminated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-618746","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\/618746","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=618746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}