{"id":134008,"date":"2022-12-10T15:12:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=134008"},"modified":"2022-12-10T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T20:12:10","slug":"buffalo-sabres-forward-jeff-skinner-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/12\/10\/buffalo-sabres-forward-jeff-skinner-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres Forward Jeff Skinner Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/skinnje01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeff Skinner<\/a><\/strong> has been suspended to three games for a cross-check to the Pittsburgh Penguins <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/guentja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Guentzel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Buffalo\u2019s Jeff Skinner has been suspended for three games for Cross-checking Pittsburgh\u2019s Jake Guentzel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wAFQXD80xH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/wAFQXD80xH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety\/status\/1601657162958536704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jeff Skinner Suspended Three Games<\/h2>\n<p>The NHL Department of Player Safety decided on a three-game suspension for Skinner&#8217;s actions late in their game Friday. In the Penguins&#8217;4-3 overtime win, Guentzel gave Sabres goaltender <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/andercr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Craig Anderson<\/a><\/strong> a quick slash during a stoppage with 22 seconds left in regulation. Skinner chased Guentzel to the boards and brought his sick up into Guentzel&#8217;s face. The result was a major and a game misconduct for Skinner.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins took advantage of the power play in overtime, scoring on a 4-on-3 to end the game. With the win, Pittsburgh is on an 11-2-2 run after going on a 0-6-1 and now has 34 points in 27 games. While they aren&#8217;t comfortably in a playoff spot with both New York teams hot on their heels. Every point helps in the Metropolitan Division.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres are falling behind projections to challenge for a playoff spot themselves this season. Their fiery 7-3-0 start was sunk by an eight-game losing streak. Since then, though, they&#8217;ve gone 5-2-2 to regain their footing. Currently, they stand seven points away from either a wild card spot in the conference or one of the Metro Division&#8217;s three slots.<\/p>\n<h3>Early Sequel<\/h3>\n<p>The two teams meet again in Pittsburgh tonight, and emotions always run hot in back-to-back games. The Sabres aren&#8217;t going to be happy with missing their second-leading scorer for the rematch, never mind the next two. Jeff Skinner is building on last year&#8217;s excellent 33-goal, 66-point season with 13 goals and 32 points in 27 games this year. His current six-game point streak &#8211; four goals, eleven points &#8211; will be broken by tonight&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson is almost certainly going to play backup in tonight&#8217;s rematch as well. That leaves the only returning player from yesterday&#8217;s drama being Guentzel. We&#8217;ll see if he gets all the attention of the Sabres tonight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Most games with 5+ points since the start of the 2021-22 NHL season:<\/p>\n<p>3 \u2013 Nathan MacKinnon<br \/>\n3 \u2013 Jonathan Huberdeau<br \/>\n2 \u2013 Jeff Skinner<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cb4LUQDBEu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Cb4LUQDBEu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hockey Reference (@hockey_ref) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hockey_ref\/status\/1598750109973549056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 2, 2022<\/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>The Buffalo Sabres Jeff Skinner has been suspended to three games for a cross-check to the Pittsburgh Penguins Jake Guentzel. Buffalo\u2019s Jeff Skinner has been suspended for three games for Cross-checking Pittsburgh\u2019s Jake Guentzel. https:\/\/t.co\/wAFQXD80xH &mdash; NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) December 10, 2022 Jeff Skinner Suspended Three Games The NHL Department of Player Safety decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3171,"featured_media":134011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,4547,4548,12],"tags":[5833,2480,906,277,955,6156,6022],"class_list":["post-134008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sabres","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-penguins","tag-buffalo-sabres-news","tag-department-of-player-safety","tag-jake-guentzel","tag-jeff-skinner","tag-nhl-news","tag-nhl-suspension","tag-pittsburgh-penguins-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134008","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\/3171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}