{"id":6659,"date":"2017-02-15T17:18:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2017-02-15T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:20:33","slug":"gustav-nyquist-suspended-six-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/02\/15\/gustav-nyquist-suspended-six-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Gustav Nyquist Suspended Six Games for Slash on Jared Spurgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Red Wings forward\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nyquigu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gustav Nyquist<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>has been suspended six games by the NHL for a slash to the face of the Minnesota Wild&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/spurgja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jared Spurgeon<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Gustav Nyquist Suspended Six Games for Slash on Jared Spurgeon<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Six game suspension for Nyquist.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNBobMcKenzie\/status\/831990413108113410\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nyquist speared Spurgeon hard in the face during the first period of Sunday&#8217;s game between Detroit and Minnesota. He was given a two-minute minor penalty for high-sticking at the time, and Spurgeon did return to the game after leaving briefly to tend to his injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Extended look at the Nyquist high stick. Not happy with the crosscheck and went straight for the face <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnwild?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mnwild<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QGyM1MnHyT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/QGyM1MnHyT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Stafki (@AdamStafki) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamStafki\/status\/830885094982373376\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Nyquist waived his right to an in-person hearing with the NHL&#8217;s Department of Player Safety, opting instead to do it over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>After the game on Sunday, Nyquist claimed that he did not intend to high-stick Spurgeon, asserting that his stick got caught:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cx7XnfEh4fk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spurgeon was not seriously injured, receiving stitches during the game before returning.<\/p>\n<p>In 56 games this season, Nyquist has seven goals and 22 assists, making him the Red Wings&#8217; third-highest scorer. He has logged 92 penalty minutes in his 317-game career.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his 121 shots (third on team) and 55.16 shot attempts per hour (third), the 27-year old winger is looking at a second\u00a0straight season of decline from his 27 goals in 2014-15. He scored 14 power play goals that season, and has just one this campaign, mostly due to the historically weak Detroit power play (12%, 30th). He is a normal fixture in the man advantage, logging 162:51 to place second to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zettehe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henrik Zetterberg<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Nyquist was drafted in the fourth round (121st overall) of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft and is one of six forwards past pick #100 in that class to play at least 300 games in the NHL. He has 83 goals and 187 points in his career, posting two consecutive 25+ goal campaigns in his first two seasons.<\/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\/637141726\" 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\/637141726?et=O3NB9hibS2J1vKLaL0Ut7w&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=iu7cJ9g0qVLFeUmq352ktJHO7cVgB2xQdzDTmEvXAvo=&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>Detroit Red Wings forward\u00a0Gustav Nyquist\u00a0has been suspended six games by the NHL for a slash to the face of the Minnesota Wild&#8217;s\u00a0Jared Spurgeon. Gustav Nyquist Suspended Six Games for Slash on Jared Spurgeon Six game suspension for Nyquist. \u2014 Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) February 15, 2017 Nyquist speared Spurgeon hard in the face during the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":6671,"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":[4,34],"tags":[95,296,37,1267,38],"class_list":["post-6659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redwings","category-news","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-gustav-nyquist","tag-hockey","tag-jared-spurgeon","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Griffin Schroeder (Associate Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","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=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}