{"id":108903,"date":"2021-05-06T16:34:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=108903"},"modified":"2021-05-06T16:34:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:34:04","slug":"pavel-buchnevich-suspended-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/05\/06\/pavel-buchnevich-suspended-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavel Buchnevich Suspended One Game for High-Sticking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL Department of Player Safety announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/05\/06\/jeff-gorton-new-york-rangers-underachieving\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a> forward Pavel Buchnevich has been suspended for one game. This is his first career suspension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NY Rangers\u2019 Pavel Buchnevich has been suspended for one game for High-sticking Washington\u2019s Anthony Mantha. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kriEzlo2FV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/kriEzlo2FV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety\/status\/1390401110280658946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pavel Buchnevich Suspended One Game<\/h2>\n<p>Pavel Buchnevich has been suspended for one game for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AyWe5fS120c&amp;t=80s\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dangerous high-stick<\/a> to Anthony Mantha. After a tense first period that featured six fights in the first five minutes, Buchnevich delivered a high cross-check to Mantha. As a result, &#8220;Buch&#8221; was ejected from the game after receiving both a minor penalty and game misconduct. Wednesday&#8217;s game was fueled by the leagues&#8217; prior decision <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/05\/06\/nhls-mishandling-tom-wilson-situation-abysmal-failure\/\" target=\"_self\">to not suspend Tom Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Buchnevich is having a productive season on Zibanejad&#8217;s wing, scoring 20 goals and 25 assists in just 53 games. In a longer season, he would&#8217;ve broken last year&#8217;s career-high 46 points in 68 games. Buchnevich has taken 42 minutes of penalties, a number largely inflated after the Capitals&#8217; game. His possession numbers this year are 46.9 percent Corsi for with a relative Corsi of -.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Over his 5 year NHL career spent entirely with the Rangers, Buchnevich has tallied 79 goals and 113 assists for 192 career points in 300 career games. He was drafted in the 3rd round, 75th overall of the 2013 NHL draft by the Rangers.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>The suspension comes after the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/05\/06\/new-york-rangers-fined-for-public-statement-earlier-this-week\/\" target=\"_self\">Rangers were fined $250,000<\/a> for their statement denouncing Head of Player Safety George Parros for not suspending Tom Wilson. That and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/05\/05\/rangers-fire-jeff-gorton-president-john-davidson\/\" target=\"_self\">firing of general manager<\/a> Jeff Gorton dominated headlines this week.<\/p>\n<p>Buchnevich has been<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vzmercogliano\/status\/1390316788597067779?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> shut down for the remainder of the season<\/a>. He is facing the offseason as a restricted free agent for the cap-crunched Rangers. The Rangers also need to figure out how to sign other notable RFAs: Fox, Shesterkin, and Chytil with the NHL salary cap expected to remain flat.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"g21ak8KTQIlhOQaZc6fG_w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1232656657\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'g21ak8KTQIlhOQaZc6fG_w',sig:'x_n4PkCLEB-NA1ZZTEu1cO1CAkuvifhdcV4MVjDu6DU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1232656657',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL Department of Player Safety announced that New York Rangers forward Pavel Buchnevich has been suspended for one game. This is his first career suspension. NY Rangers\u2019 Pavel Buchnevich has been suspended for one game for High-sticking Washington\u2019s Anthony Mantha. https:\/\/t.co\/kriEzlo2FV \u2014 NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) May 6, 2021 Pavel Buchnevich Suspended One Game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3866,"featured_media":108925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34,4548,15],"tags":[2480,2366],"class_list":["post-108903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rangers","category-news","category-nhl","category-capitals","tag-department-of-player-safety","tag-pavel-buchnevich"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}