{"id":437279,"date":"2024-02-07T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=437279"},"modified":"2024-02-07T19:00:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:00:36","slug":"winnipeg-jets-defenceman-brenden-dillon-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/02\/07\/winnipeg-jets-defenceman-brenden-dillon-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets Defenceman Brenden Dillon Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL Department of Player Safety (DOPS) issued a three game suspension for Winnipeg Jets defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dillobr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-07_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brenden Dillon<\/a> for his hit to the head of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/penguins\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/acciano01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-07_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noel Acciari<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Winnipeg\u2019s Brenden Dillon has been suspended for three games for an illegal check to the head on Pittsburgh\u2019s Noel Acciari. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fpfGFVIM8B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/fpfGFVIM8B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety\/status\/1755376605810032763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Brenden Dillon Suspended Three Games<\/h2>\n<p>On Tuesday night&#8217;s Jets\/Penguins game, Noel Acciari raced down the boards and Brenden Dillon met him with a hit to Acciari&#8217;s head. The hit knocked off Acciari&#8217;s helmet and sent him to the ice. He was helped off and back to the locker room and did not return. Dillon was assessed a match penalty. Following this incident, the NHL DOPS had a phone hearing with Dillon and ultimately decided to suspend him for three games. The phone hearing meant that Dillon could not receive more than a five-game suspension.<\/p>\n<p>As of this game, Dillon had six goals and nine assists. The Penguins shut out the Jets 3-0. But Dillon is more of a physical, defensive presence for the Jets. At 6&#8242; 4&#8243; and 225 lbs., Dillon has a propensity to throw his weight around. Sometimes a little too close to crossing the line as seen here. He leads the Jets in <a href=\"https:\/\/moneypuck.com\/stats.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hits<\/a> with 136 but also in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/stats\/skaters?reportType=season&amp;seasonFrom=20232024&amp;seasonTo=20232024&amp;gameType=2&amp;playerPlayedFor=franchise.35&amp;filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&amp;sort=penaltyMinutes&amp;page=0&amp;pageSize=50\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">penalties<\/a> significantly with 75.<\/p>\n<h3>What this Means<\/h3>\n<p>This is not Dillon&#8217;s first interaction with the NHL DOPS as he was suspended back in 2017. However, due to the length of time between that incident and this one, Dillon is not <a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/nhl\/winnipeg-jets\/news\/winnipegs-brenden-dillon-to-have-suspension-hearing-for-check-on-noel-acciari\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">considered<\/a> a repeat offender. Regardless, Winnipeg will move forward without Dillon. While the Jets had a hot stretch of limiting other teams&#8217; scoring, they have since cooled off and have gone 1-3-1 in their last five including the Penguins matchup. They have not scored more than two goals in any of those and have been shutout twice. While the Jets search for offence, losing Dillon may not be the biggest contributor in that regard. However, losing a strong defenceman like Dillon will cause line shuffles and adjustments that the Jets will have to weather.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL Department of Player Safety (DOPS) issued a three game suspension for Winnipeg Jets defenceman Brenden Dillon for his hit to the head of Pittsburgh Penguins Noel Acciari. Winnipeg\u2019s Brenden Dillon has been suspended for three games for an illegal check to the head on Pittsburgh\u2019s Noel Acciari. https:\/\/t.co\/fpfGFVIM8B &mdash; NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4428,"featured_media":437280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[34,2,4547,4548,33],"tags":[622,6156,357],"class_list":["post-437279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-jets","tag-brenden-dillon","tag-nhl-suspension","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437279","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\/4428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}