{"id":471580,"date":"2023-12-01T19:59:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T23:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=471580"},"modified":"2023-12-01T19:59:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T23:59:50","slug":"new-jerseys-smith-suspended-for-2-matches-for-slashing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/new-jerseys-smith-suspended-for-2-matches-for-slashing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey\u2019s Smith suspended for 2 matches for slashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Devils player Brendan Smith has been banned for 2 matches for slashing Philadelphia Flyers attacker Travis Konecny, NHL Player Safety shared today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Brendan Smith gets a 2 gamer for this slash on Travis Konecny last night <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JxmWP1l7WE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JxmWP1l7WE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spittin&#8217; Chiclets (@spittinchiclets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spittinchiclets\/status\/1730693282810753373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The defenceman was also fined 50,000 dollars, the maximum amount that the league can fine him.<\/p>\n<p>The episode happened in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> period of his organization\u2019s 4-3 OT victory against Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>While moving towards the bench, Konecny struck Smith across the back with his stick before the New Jersey player retaliated with a slash across the chest, leaving the Flyers forward in pain.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan was given a minor penalty for slashing on the play, while his opponent was not punished for his actions during the incident. Despite that, New Jersey went on to triumph 4-3 in the overtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Devils player Brendan Smith has been banned for 2 matches for slashing Philadelphia Flyers attacker Travis Konecny, NHL Player Safety shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":471581,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17062,17844],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[22232,17979,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The Devils defenceman is banned for 2 games.","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\/471580"}],"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=471580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471583,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471580\/revisions\/471583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471580"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=471580"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=471580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}