{"id":65818,"date":"2020-01-13T19:45:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T00:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=65818"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:30:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:30:47","slug":"edmonton-oilers-zack-kassian-suspended-two-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/01\/13\/edmonton-oilers-zack-kassian-suspended-two-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers Zack Kassian Suspended Two Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL Department of Player Safety announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/oilers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> winger <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kassiza01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zack Kassian<\/a><\/strong> has been suspended for two games. This is his fourth career suspension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Edmonton\u2019s Zack Kassian has been suspended for two games under Rule 46.2 (Aggressor) for an altercation with Calgary\u2019s Matthew Tkachuk. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GNOVYmYAkh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/GNOVYmYAkh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety\/status\/1216875032191950849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Zack Kassian Suspended<\/h2>\n<p>Kassian has been suspended for two games and for an incident with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calgary Flames<\/a> winger <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tkachma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matthew Tkachuk<\/a><\/strong> during the second period of Saturday Night&#8217;s game. Kassian retaliated after Tkachuk delivered a clean hit on him into the board. He then proceeded to drop the gloves and start sucker-punching the Flames forward. Kassian got two minor penalties for roughing and 10-minute misconduct on the play.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, he scored 13 goals and 15 assists for 28 points. He also added 64 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 49.3 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of +2.8.<\/p>\n<p>Over his nine-year NHL career, Kassian has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sabres\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> and Edmonton Oilers. He has put up 80 goals and 91 assists for 171 career points in 510 career games. Buffalo originally drafted 13th overall of the 2009 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Insert quote with hyperlink to source (from team, coach, player, agent, or credible news source) if available<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Kassian is currently on pace for a career year with the Oilers this season and is currently fourth on the team with 30 points this season. He&#8217;s currently playing on the top line alongside <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcdavco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connor McDavid<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nealja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Neal<\/a><\/strong>. Kassian not only brings physicality to the Oilers line-up but also brings a scoring touch on the top line. It will be interesting to see how the Oilers perform without Kassian in the line-up.<\/p>\n<p>With Kassian out of the line-up,<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/khairju01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jujhar Khaira<\/a><\/strong> will draw into the line-up. Khaira has picked up six goals and two assists for eight points in 42 games this season. He also has 16 minutes in penalties.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/11\/gettyimages-1186839199-594x594.jpg\" alt=\"\">ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA &#8211; NOVEMBER 10: Mikko Koskinen #19 and Zack Kassian #44 of the Edmonton Oilers celebrate defeating the Anaheim Ducks6-2 in a game at Honda Center on November 10, 2019 in Anaheim, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL Department of Player Safety announced that Edmonton Oilers winger Zack Kassian has been suspended for two games. This is his fourth career suspension. Edmonton\u2019s Zack Kassian has been suspended for two games under Rule 46.2 (Aggressor) for an altercation with Calgary\u2019s Matthew Tkachuk. https:\/\/t.co\/GNOVYmYAkh &mdash; NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) January 14, 2020 Zack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":62014,"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":[23,34],"tags":[103,139,138,5738,330,2380,701,2569,955,722],"class_list":["post-65818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oilers","category-news","tag-calgary-flames","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-hockey-news","tag-james-neal","tag-jujhar-khaira","tag-matthew-tkachuk","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-zack-kassian"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65818","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=65818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}