{"id":6657,"date":"2017-02-15T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=6657"},"modified":"2017-02-15T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:47:08","slug":"antoine-vermette-suspended-__-games-abuse-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/02\/15\/antoine-vermette-suspended-__-games-abuse-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Vermette Suspended for 10 Games for Abuse of Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL announced this morning that Anaheim Ducks forward\u00a0<strong>Antoine Vermette\u00a0<\/strong>has been automatically suspended for 10 games for abuse of official.<\/p>\n<h2>Antoine Vermette Suspended for 10 Games for Abuse of Official<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Vermette can appeal his auto 10-game suspension. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman would hear appeal. Bettman can uphold\/increase\/decrease 10 G.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNBobMcKenzie\/status\/831882096218079235\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vermette was ejected from a game Tuesday between Anaheim and the Minnesota Wild for slashing the leg of linesman Shandor Alphonso after a faceoff. The Ducks ultimately won the game 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>The action was classified by the NHL as a Category II abuse of official offense, which carries with it an automatic 10-game suspension.<\/p>\n<p>The relevant league rule states that &#8220;any player who deliberately applies force to an official in any manner . . . which physical force is applied without intent to injure, or who spits on an official, shall be automatically suspended for not less than ten (10) games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vermette has the option to appeal the NHL&#8217;s decision, and league commissioner Gary Bettman can rule on whether to uphold the 10-game penalty, or either increase or decrease it.<\/p>\n<p>The last major suspension in the NHL for abusing an official was applied to\u00a0<strong>Dennis Wideman\u00a0<\/strong>of the Calgary Flames last season, whose 20-game ban was reduced to 10 after appeal.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, Vermette would be slated to return to the Anaheim lineup on March 12, when they host the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>Vermette has recorded 8 goals and 14 assists in 58 games so far this season for the Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/632437128\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/632437128?et=Q85NtF50SgpwXe-XzoHIbw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=YzKiNWL57sZYuI0veq9R3xZK6J5_tbcYqS6YrLMNTGI=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL announced this morning that Anaheim Ducks forward\u00a0Antoine Vermette\u00a0has been automatically suspended for 10 games for abuse of official. Antoine Vermette Suspended for 10 Games for Abuse of Official &nbsp; Vermette can appeal his auto 10-game suspension. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman would hear appeal. Bettman can uphold\/increase\/decrease 10 G. \u2014 Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":6666,"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":[20,34],"tags":[118,438,37,38],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ducks","category-news","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-antoine-vermette","tag-hockey","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657","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\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}