{"id":121213,"date":"2021-11-12T16:44:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=121213"},"modified":"2021-11-12T16:44:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T21:44:18","slug":"tucker-poolman-suspended-for-high-sticking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/11\/12\/tucker-poolman-suspended-for-high-sticking\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Poolman Suspended Two Games For High-Sticking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver Canucks defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/poolmtu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tucker Poolman<\/a> was suspended two games for high-sticking <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/11\/10\/colorado-avalanche-nathan-mackinnon-injury\/\" target=\"_self\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sherwki01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kiefer Sherwood<\/a> during Thursday&#8217;s game. The Department of Player Safety announced this decision earlier today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Canucks defenceman Tucker Poolman has been suspended two games for high-sticking, the department of player safety announced, stemming from an incident on Thursday in which he hit Avalanche forward Kiefer Sherwood in the head with his stick.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/US3iNrbc6A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/US3iNrbc6A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1459262616807817222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Tucker Poolman Suspended Two Games<\/h2>\n<p>Poolman was hit by Sherwood during play in the Canucks&#8217; 7-1 loss on Thursday. Poolman responded by whipping his stick around and hitting Sherwood in the helmet. During such a blowout, frustrations can flare, but it is absolutely necessary that actions like these do not go unpunished.<\/p>\n<p>The right-shooting defenceman is in his first year wearing a Canucks jersey. Through 13 games this season, Poolman has been quiet on the scoresheet, except in one category. Only one point in the form of an assist, and a plus\/minus rating of +3, he&#8217;s not a very impactful player. However, his 20 minutes in penalties show his true role for the Canucks. He&#8217;s next to useless on the ice, showing an abysmal 43.3 Corsi For percentage and an even worse -13.8 relative Corsi. Over his short, four-year career, Poolman has played in 133 NHL games, scored 5 times and dished out 15 assists for a total of 20 points.<\/p>\n<h3>How the Canucks Adjust<\/h3>\n<p>With Tucker Poolman suspended, the Canucks really won&#8217;t have too much to account for. As previously mentioned, he&#8217;s not a very impactful player and doesn&#8217;t help much on the back end. Still, he&#8217;s a starting NHL defenceman, so the Canucks will have to do some line shifting to account for his two-game absence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rathbja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Rathbone<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/schenlu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luke Schenn<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hamontr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travis Hamonic<\/a> have played a combined 18 games this season, so one of them will likely be the next man up for Vancouver. Out of the three, Hamonic will likely get the nod, as he&#8217;s been most impactful when he&#8217;s played. Averaging just over 18 minutes of ice time through four games, as opposed to less than 14 minutes for the other two, expect Hamonic to slot into the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"oRtovKYzQ61m8QT--gzO9A\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1236244273\" 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:'oRtovKYzQ61m8QT--gzO9A',sig:'UsOLQ5GdFBBfhaMQdOawvB541eyfQ7gGKVoarO_0e3A=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1236244273',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>Vancouver Canucks defenceman Tucker Poolman was suspended two games for high-sticking Colorado Avalanche forward Kiefer Sherwood during Thursday&#8217;s game. The Department of Player Safety announced this decision earlier today. Canucks defenceman Tucker Poolman has been suspended two games for high-sticking, the department of player safety announced, stemming from an incident on Thursday in which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":121214,"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":[34,4547,4548,26],"tags":[3094,1470],"class_list":["post-121213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-canucks","tag-kiefer-sherwood","tag-tucker-poolman"],"modified_by":"Noah Foster, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121213","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\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}