{"id":467954,"date":"2023-11-01T11:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=467954"},"modified":"2023-11-01T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:20:02","slug":"boston-d-mcavoy-suspended-4-matches-for-head-hit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/boston-d-mcavoy-suspended-4-matches-for-head-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston D McAvoy suspended 4 matches for head hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Bruins player Charlie McAvoy has been suspended 4 matches for an illegal hit to the head on Oliver Ekman-Larsson of the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Boston\u2019s Charlie McAvoy has been suspended for four games for an Illegal Check to the Head on Florida\u2019s Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NHLPlayerSafety<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/el8lOEY8M3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/el8lOEY8M3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1719481151176257677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Monday when the Bruins defenceman caught a Panthers player\u2019s head with his shoulder in front of Florida\u2019s net more than a 1 second after Oliver had played the puck during the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> period with the match being 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie got a match penalty for the hit, and Boston killed off the 5-minute major, eventually triumphing 3-2 after an OT to improve to 8-0-1 since the beginning of the campaign. The Panthers player did not return to the ice after the hit.<\/p>\n<p>McAvoy&#8217;s lone career suspension happened during the postseason in 2019 when he got a 1-match ban for again hit to the head, but the Bruins defenceman is not considered a repeat offender by the NHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Bruins player Charlie McAvoy has been suspended 4 matches for an illegal hit to the head on Oliver Ekman-Larsson of the Florida [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":467955,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17259,17844],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[17914,21960,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The Bruins defenceman is suspended for 4 games for a head hit.","video":["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\/467954"}],"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=467954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467957,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467954\/revisions\/467957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467954"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=467954"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=467954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}