{"id":436525,"date":"2023-05-23T18:26:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T22:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436525"},"modified":"2023-05-23T18:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T22:26:44","slug":"usas-mikey-ejected-for-kneeing-rasmus-at-the-iihf","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/usas-mikey-ejected-for-kneeing-rasmus-at-the-iihf\/","title":{"rendered":"USA&#8217;s Mikey ejected for kneeing Rasmus at the IIHF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA&#8217;s Mikey Eyssimont was given a 5-minute major and game misconduct for kneeing Sweden&#8217;s Rasmus Sandin at the World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The occurrence happened in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> period of the last preliminary round match for both national teams. Team USA beat Sweden 4-3 in OT and finished 1<sup>st<\/sup> place in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden&#8217;s player left the game after the hit and did not return to the ice till the end of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Eyssimont (<a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/tampa-bay-lightning\/\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>) has 2 assists in 7 clashes at the world championship.<\/p>\n<p>Sandin (<a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/washington-capitals\/\">Washington Capitals<\/a>) has 1 assist at the IIHF, as he played in 6 matches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Things you hate to see: Rasmus Sandin hobbled to the Swedish dressing room grabbing at his left leg during the IIHF World Hockey Championship. Team USA&#8217;s Mikey Eyssimont assessed a five-minute kneeing penalty and game misconduct on the hit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/1661002552643661824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA&#8217;s Mikey Eyssimont was given a 5-minute major and game misconduct for kneeing Sweden&#8217;s Rasmus Sandin at the World Championship. The occurrence happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":436526,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19373],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[19374],"acf":{"announce":"Eyssimont was ejected from the game.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436527,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436525\/revisions\/436527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436525"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436525"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}