{"id":47951,"date":"2019-05-30T21:32:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T01:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=47951"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:33:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:33:25","slug":"st-louis-blues-oskar-sundqvist-suspended-for-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/05\/30\/st-louis-blues-oskar-sundqvist-suspended-for-game-3\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues Oskar Sundqvist Suspended for Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL Department of Player Safety announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blues\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sundqos01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oskar Sundqvist<\/a><\/strong> has been suspended for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final. This is his first career suspension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"da\" dir=\"ltr\">St. Louis\u2019 Oskar Sundqvist has been suspended for one game for Boarding Boston\u2019s Matt Grzelcyk. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2W0ZLnn9fI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/2W0ZLnn9fI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety\/status\/1134265967889014786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 31, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Oskar Sundqvist Suspended<\/h1>\n<p>Oskar Sundqvist was suspended for one game\u00a0 for an incident with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/grzelma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Grzelcyk<\/a><\/strong>. The Boden, Sweden native boarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bruins<\/a> defenceman in the first period of the Blues 3-2 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/05\/29\/carl-gunnarsson-leads-blues-past-bruins\/\" target=\"_self\">overtime victory in Game 2<\/a>. He did not return to the game and Grzelcyk was subsequently taken to the hospital after the game <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/05\/30\/boston-bruins-matt-grzelcyk-injured\/\" target=\"_self\">and put into the concussion protocol.<\/a> Sundqvist got a two-minute minor for boarding.<\/p>\n<p>In the regular season, he scored 14 goals and 17 assists for 31 points in 74 assists. He also added 22 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 50.1 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of -2.7. He has four goals and five assists for nine points in 21 post-season games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Sundqvist has played for the Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues in his four-year NHL-career. He has put up 16 goals and 24 assists for 40 career points in 144 career games. Pittsburgh originally drafted him in the third round, 81st overall of the 2012 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Boston coach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/cassibr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruce Cassidy<\/a> said Grzelcyk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/sports\/bruins\/2019\/05\/30\/blues-oskar-sundqvist-have-hearing-for-hit-bruins-matt-grzelcyk\/B63SGmzVv8apOFm35TWCVI\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will not travel with the team to St. Louis<\/a> for Game 3. The Bruins only had five defencemen to finish out Game 2. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/moorejo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Moore<\/a><\/strong> will likley come into the lineup like he did in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Final.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a career season for Sundqvist with his 14 goals. He only had two going into the 2018-19 campaign. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomaro01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Thomas<\/a><\/strong> could make his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/05\/29\/robert-thomas-to-miss-game-2-for-st-louis-blues\/\" target=\"_self\">return to the lineup<\/a> and be centre on the fourth line. However,<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sanfoza01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Sanford<\/a><\/strong> would slide into the lineup if Thomas isn&#8217;t ready for Game 3.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues would then put<strong> Ivan <\/strong><span class=\"st\"><strong>Barbeshev<\/strong> at centre while Sanford would move over to the left wing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/01\/gettyimages-942048248-594x594.jpg\" alt=\"\">ST. LOUIS, MO &#8211; APRIL 04: St. Louis Blues&#8217; Oskar Sundqvist skates up ice with the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game between the Blues and the Chicago Blackhawks on April 4, 2018, at Scottrade Center. (Photo by Tim Spyers\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL Department of Player Safety announced that St. Louis Blues forward Oskar Sundqvist has been suspended for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final. This is his first career suspension. St. Louis\u2019 Oskar Sundqvist has been suspended for one game for Boarding Boston\u2019s Matt Grzelcyk. https:\/\/t.co\/2W0ZLnn9fI &mdash; NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) May 31, 2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":40357,"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":[34,32],"tags":[4085,3826,90,5738,3413,2569,955,905,39],"class_list":["post-47951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-blues","tag-2019-stanley-cup","tag-2019-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-boston-bruins","tag-hockey-news","tag-matt-grzelcyk","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-oskar-sundqvist","tag-st-louis-blues"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47951","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}