{"id":38739,"date":"2018-12-07T19:59:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=38739"},"modified":"2018-12-07T19:59:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T00:59:08","slug":"calgary-flames-mark-giordano-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/12\/07\/calgary-flames-mark-giordano-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames Mark Giordano Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.The NHL Department of Player Safety announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calgary Flames<\/a> defensemen <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/giordma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Giordano<\/a><\/strong> has been suspended for two game. This is his first career suspension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Calgary\u2019s Mark Giordano has been suspended for two games for kneeing Minnesota\u2019s Mikko Koivu. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/771Qz2CB0z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/771Qz2CB0z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety\/status\/1071194354289524736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/giordma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Giordano<\/a> Suspended<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/giordma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Giordano<\/a> has been suspended for two games\u00a0 for an incident with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> center <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/koivumi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikko Koivu<\/a><\/strong>. Giordano applied a knee on knee hit on center <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/koivumi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikko Koivu<\/a><\/strong>. He will forfeit $72,580.64 of his salary.<\/p>\n<p>Giordano has scored three goals and 26 assists for 29 points so far this season. He also has added 22 penalty minutes. His possession numbers were 57 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of +4.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto native has only played for the Calgary Flames in his 13-year NHL career. He has put up 115\u00a0goals and 292\u00a0assists for 407\u00a0career points in 784\u00a0career games.<\/p>\n<p>DPOS <a href=\"https:\/\/nanaimonewsnow.com\/article\/603065\/flames-forward-lomberg-suspended-one-game-nhl-captain-giordano-have-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was busy with Calgary<\/a> as<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lombery01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Lomberg<\/a><\/strong> was suspended for one game and coach <strong>Bill Peters<\/strong> was fined $10,000 for another incident that occurred at the end of Thursday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of Players Safety&#8217;s penalty mean the Flames will be without their capain for two games. The Giordano suspension is a huge loss for a Flames team who is currently leading the Pacific division. Giordano currently leads the Flames is assists and power-play assists for the Flames.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hanifno01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noah Hanifin<\/a><\/strong> will most likely be tasked with picking up top-line minutes for the Flames. Hanifin has three goals and 10 assists in his first season with the Flames. He was traded to Calgary from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> in June.\u00a0 This also comes at a bad time for the Flames as they already have two defensemen as both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stonemi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Stone<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Jusso Valimaki<\/strong> are out with injuries. There&#8217;s no return date for either player as of yet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/03\/Marc-Giordano.jpg\" alt=\"\">WINNIPEG, MANITOBA &#8211; MARCH 11: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/giordma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Giordano<\/a> #5 of the Calgary Flames celebrates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/frolimi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Frolik<\/a>&#8216;s goal against the Winnipeg Jets during NHL action on March 11, 2017 at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Photo by Jason Halstead \/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.The NHL Department of Player Safety announced that Calgary Flames defensemen Mark Giordano has been suspended for two game. This is his first career suspension. Calgary\u2019s Mark Giordano has been suspended for two games for kneeing Minnesota\u2019s Mikko Koivu. https:\/\/t.co\/771Qz2CB0z &mdash; NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) December 8, 2018 Mark Giordano Suspended Mark Giordano has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":7750,"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":[22,34],"tags":[103,1518,238,221,955,3351],"class_list":["post-38739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flames","category-news","tag-calgary-flames","tag-mark-giordano","tag-mikko-koivu","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl-news","tag-noah-hanifin"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38739","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=38739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}