{"id":61914,"date":"2019-11-20T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=61914"},"modified":"2019-11-20T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T18:39:07","slug":"washington-capitals-garnet-hathaway-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/11\/20\/washington-capitals-garnet-hathaway-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals Garnet Hathaway Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Capitals<\/a>&#8216; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hathaga01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garnet Hathaway<\/a><\/strong> has been suspended three games for spitting at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gudbrer01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Gudbranson<\/a><\/strong> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/ducks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>. The decision came Wednesday after a meeting with NHL Player Safety. Player Safety announced the penalty not long after.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Washington Capitals forward Garnet Hathaway suspended three games for spitting incident: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OUcZUfJkoO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/OUcZUfJkoO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uDitPBBiBt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/uDitPBBiBt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PR_NHL\/status\/1197220759913074689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Garnet Hathaway Suspended<\/h2>\n<p>The incident came near the end of the second period with the Capitals up 3-0 in a game they would eventually win 5-2. A brief scrum erupted between the two teams. Gudbranson clearly throws a quick punch at Hathaway and Hathaway responds by spitting at him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Garnet Hathaway gets a match penalty for spitting in Erik Gudbranson\u2019s face <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KfjjkBMtVC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/KfjjkBMtVC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteBlackburn\/status\/1196610139320705025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hathaway was given a match penalty and ejected. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/ritchni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Ritchie<\/a><\/strong> was given a Game Misconduct but several other players were penalized as well.<\/p>\n<p>This fight did not have much of an impact as Washington would go on to score two more goals in the third but Anaheim did make things a little interesting with two of their own. The win extended Washington&#8217;s lead over the rest of the NHL with a league-best 16 wins and 36 points. Hathaway had one assist in the contest before his ejection.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Hathaway has been productive as one of Washington&#8217;s bottom-six forwards. The former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calgary Flames<\/a> forward has two goals and seven points in 28 contests but his biggest value is his physical play.<\/p>\n<p>Hathaway is tied with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gudasra01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radko Gudas<\/a><\/strong> for the second-most hits. Hathaway had two goals and five assists for seven points in the year. He also has a positive 51.9 Corsi For Percentage and plays well on the penalty kill. Overall, Hathaway has 18 goals and 47 points spread across 198 games in five years. This punishment doesn&#8217;t do much to impact either Hathaway or Washington. However, it will affect their depth. Look for some AHL players to get a bit of a shot with Hathaway out.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"cWphO7hLQgN9ag-WcHzWLg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1183284571\" 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:'cWphO7hLQgN9ag-WcHzWLg',sig:'MlEPPt3JQYLH98slf_6XRy3_PVR7bMZ_P1cxOLH6J8Q=',w:'594px',h:'398px',items:'1183284571',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 Washington Capitals&#8216; Garnet Hathaway has been suspended three games for spitting at Erik Gudbranson of the Anaheim Ducks. The decision came Wednesday after a meeting with NHL Player Safety. Player Safety announced the penalty not long after. Washington Capitals forward Garnet Hathaway suspended three games for spitting incident: https:\/\/t.co\/OUcZUfJkoO pic.twitter.com\/uDitPBBiBt \u2014 NHL Public Relations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":61957,"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":[15,34],"tags":[118,741,2859,2464,75],"class_list":["post-61914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capitals","category-news","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-erik-gudbranson","tag-garnet-hathaway","tag-nick-ritchie","tag-washington-capitals"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914","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\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}