{"id":41373,"date":"2019-02-12T18:12:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T23:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=41373"},"modified":"2019-02-12T18:12:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T23:12:25","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-evgeni-malkin-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/02\/12\/pittsburgh-penguins-evgeni-malkin-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins Evgeni Malkin Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL Department of Player Safety announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/penguins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> center <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/malkiev01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evgeni Malkin<\/a><\/strong> has been suspended for one game. This is his first career suspension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pittsburgh\u2019s Evgeni Malkin has been suspended for one game for High-sticking Philadelphia\u2019s Michael Raffl. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ECTGHHVwIC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ECTGHHVwIC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety\/status\/1095453134111965192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u00a0Evgeni Malkin Suspended<\/h1>\n<p>Malkin has been suspended for 1 game for an incident with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flyers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadephia Flyers<\/a> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rafflmi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Raffl<\/a><\/strong>. Malkin was originally\u00a0hit in the head by Raffl and then retaliated by swinging his stick at the head of Raffl. The Pens center was assessed a game misconduct for his actions.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, he scored 14 goals and 41 assists for 55 points. He also added 53 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 50.5 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of +1.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Malkin has spent his entire 13-year\u00a0career with the Penguins. He has put up 384 goals and 601 assists for 985 career points in 834 career games. He was originally drafted second overall of the 2004 NHL draft by the Penguins.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s game was Malkin&#8217;s first game back after he missed the previous five with an upper-body\u00a0injury. The Pens picked up only one victory in the five games that Malkin missed and will miss his presence while he&#8217;s serving his suspension. An assist in Monday&#8217;s game also extends Malkin&#8217;s point streak to five games. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bjugsni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Bjugstad<\/a><\/strong> will move up to the second line while Geno serves his suspension.<\/p>\n<p>As well,\u00a0Evgeni Malkin was also fined earlier in the year for spearing <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Capitals<\/a> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/oshietj01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T.J. Oshie<\/a><\/strong>. The Penguins continue to push on looking for another playoff\u00a0berth this year. However, they are likely lucky Evgeni Malkin did not make worse contact with Raffl. Malkin will be back in the lineup Saturday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calgary Flames<\/a>. He will sit out against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/oilers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ThdYfp7sTHtbtsT18HfhOw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1096574182\" 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:'ThdYfp7sTHtbtsT18HfhOw',sig:'dltxXW4G26ueeJjpkktLbl6JRY4VnSuDIkDLGh3QntE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1096574182',caption: true ,tld:'ca',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 Pittsburgh Penguins center Evgeni Malkin has been suspended for one game. This is his first career suspension. Pittsburgh\u2019s Evgeni Malkin has been suspended for one game for High-sticking Philadelphia\u2019s Michael Raffl. https:\/\/t.co\/ECTGHHVwIC \u2014 NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) February 12, 2019 \u00a0Evgeni Malkin Suspended Malkin has been suspended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":41423,"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":[34,12],"tags":[544,37,38,955,44],"class_list":["post-41373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-penguins","tag-evgeni-malkin","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41373","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=41373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}