{"id":68680,"date":"2020-02-14T20:21:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T01:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=68680"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:30:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:30:44","slug":"edmonton-oilers-zack-kassian-suspended-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/02\/14\/edmonton-oilers-zack-kassian-suspended-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers Zack Kassian Suspended Again"},"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> forward<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 seven games. This is his fifth career suspension and second this season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Edmonton\u2019s Zack Kassian has been suspended for seven games for Kicking Tampa Bay\u2019s Erik Cernak. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8pSlqHoL7q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/8pSlqHoL7q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety\/status\/1228486884600557568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Zack Kassian Suspended<\/h2>\n<p>Kassian has been suspended for seven games for an incident with<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/cernaer01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Cernak<\/a> <\/strong>of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>. Kassian, Cernak and<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/archijo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Archibald<\/a><\/strong> were all tangled up in a pile when Kassian got his leg free and kicked Cernak in the chest.<\/p>\n<p>It was a highly dangerous incident, but not much of a fuss was raised on the ice. Cernak moved on quickly and an on-ice official did not call a penalty. It was still a highly dangerous incident.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, he scored 14 goals and 16 assists for 30 points in 52 games. He also added 69 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers are 49.5 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of 2.1.<\/p>\n<p>Over his nine-year NHL career, the 29-year-old has played for the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers. He has put up 81 goals and 92 assists for 173 career points in 518 career games. The Buffalo Sabres originally drafted him in the first round, 13th overall of the 2009 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Kassian waived his right to an in-person hearing. He was suspended two games after an incident with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calgary Flames<\/a> <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> Kassian said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/news\/oilers-zack-kassian-in-hot-water-again-after-kicking-opponent-in-the-chest-with-his-skate\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he needed to be smarter<\/a> so he could play in the big games.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>The Oilers are already missing the services of <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>, who is out for another week or two. Kassian has profited by being on the ice with McDavid and was rewarded with a contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton sits in a three-way tie for second place on points in the Pacific Division with the Flames and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/knights\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>. The Oilers hold the second spot due to number of games played.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,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\/1200808033\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.66667% 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\/1200808033?et=NfsvxCRSTFdNLcLqnbPjoQ&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=Ugs7tqd4bzeLnoKKNhJqKelS-erMvYIu44MU9mS-Rgk=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL Department of Player Safety announced that Edmonton Oilers forward Zack Kassian has been suspended for seven games. This is his fifth career suspension and second this season. Edmonton\u2019s Zack Kassian has been suspended for seven games for Kicking Tampa Bay\u2019s Erik Cernak. https:\/\/t.co\/8pSlqHoL7q \u2014 NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) February 15, 2020 &nbsp; Zack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":68730,"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":[139,2480,138,1299,5738,3801,2569,955,42,722],"class_list":["post-68680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oilers","category-news","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-department-of-player-safety","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-erik-cernak","tag-hockey-news","tag-josh-archibald","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-zack-kassian"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68680","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=68680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}