{"id":27355,"date":"2018-04-18T19:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T23:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=27355"},"modified":"2018-04-18T19:23:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T23:23:59","slug":"winnipeg-jets-josh-morrissey-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/04\/18\/winnipeg-jets-josh-morrissey-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets Josh Morrissey Suspended For Cross-Check on Minnesota Wild Eric Staal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of NHL Player Safety announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/jets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a>\u00a0defensemen<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/morrijo04.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Morrissey<\/a><\/strong> has been suspended for one game. This is his first career suspension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Winnipeg\u2019s Josh Morrissey suspended one game for cross-checking Minnesota\u2019s Eric Staal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BlJsrKNl4J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/BlJsrKNl4J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety\/status\/986744160576327680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/morrijo04.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Morrissey<\/a> Suspended One Game<\/h1>\n<p>Morrissey has been suspended one game for an incident with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>&#8216;s forward<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/staaler01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Staal<\/a><\/strong>. With 4:03 left in the third period Morrissey cross-checked Staal in the side of the head. There was no penalty called on the play.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cross-check to the head of Eric Staal goes uncalled. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnwild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mnwild<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T021jpauJB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/T021jpauJB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Giles Ferrell (@gilesferrell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gilesferrell\/status\/986404919669350400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This season Morrisey scored seven goals and had 19 assists for 26 points. He also added 47 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 50.6 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of -1.0 percent. He has one assist so far in the playoffs<\/p>\n<p>Over his three-year NHL career, Morrissey has only played for the Winnipeg Jets. He has 13 goals and 33 assists for 46 career points in 164 games. He was drafted in the first round, 13th overall in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft by the Jets.<\/p>\n<h1>What This Means for the Future<\/h1>\n<p>This would be another huge loss for the Jets as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/myersty01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Myers<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/enstrto01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toby Enstrom<\/a><\/strong> are already hurt. The Jets would look upon<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/byfugdu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dustin Byfuglien<\/a><\/strong> to carry the load of the minutes while Morrissey is serving his suspension. Newly acquired defencemen <strong>Joe Morrow<\/strong> should start to see an increase in minutes as well. He had the game-winning goal in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets are currently up three games to one in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and are likely to advance to the next round. If the Jets advance, however, expect them to have a lot of trouble going forward with three key defensemen out of their lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets would face the winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/predators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nashville Predators<\/a> vs <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/avalanche\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> series. The Predators currently lead the series two games to one.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"cZBfUonJQI1dRiB8V_cpxw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/941510632\" 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:'cZBfUonJQI1dRiB8V_cpxw',sig:'wTjqGkHJpiN7moT8VdIW1-R-UzPPL6nb1m_eYyY4I1o=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'941510632',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 Department of NHL Player Safety announced that Winnipeg Jets\u00a0defensemen Josh Morrissey has been suspended for one game. This is his first career suspension. Winnipeg\u2019s Josh Morrissey suspended one game for cross-checking Minnesota\u2019s Eric Staal. https:\/\/t.co\/BlJsrKNl4J \u2014 NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) April 18, 2018 Josh Morrissey Suspended One Game Morrissey has been suspended one game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":27366,"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":[33,34],"tags":[2921,357],"class_list":["post-27355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jets","category-news","tag-josh-morrissey","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27355","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\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}