Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid will have a disciplinary hearing for his cross-check to the head of Vancouver Canucks winger Conor Garland.
The NHL's Department of Player Safety has announced that both Vancouver Canucks' Tyler Myers and Edmonton Oilers' Connor McDavid will have hearings in the near future. Both were assessed match penalties at the end of Saturday's game for delivering cross-checks to an opponent's head.
The Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks got into a major skirmish to end last night's game, but defenceman Tyler Myers may end up getting the longer suspension.
Leon Draisaitl scored twice and Stuart Skinner made 24 saves for the Oilers (29-14-3), who lost for the first time in five games and second in the past 10 (8-2-0).
The Edmonton Oilers may be without Connor McDavid as he faces a hearing following a cross-checking incident against the Vancouver Canucks.
The hatred between the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers is alive and well, both on and off the ice, and McDavid isn't safe from it.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. It’s hard to know exactly where to stand with the Vancouver Canucks, who very clearly deserve full marks for the way they performed in Saturday’s 3-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers.
The Vancouver-Abbotsford pipeline continues to churn. Forward Jonathan Lekkerimaki and defenceman Guillaume Brisebois were sent down to AHL Abbotsford, the Canucks said on Sunday.
Edmonton's Connor McDavid and Vancouver's Tyler Myers will have disciplinary hearings with the league after being penalized for cross-checking in Saturday's game.
There was momentum on J.T. Miller getting traded to the New York Rangers on Saturday, but the deal collapsed per NHL insider Elliotte Friedman. Miller was supposedly being held out of Saturday night's game against the Edmonton Oilers while some AHL players in the Rangers organization were scratched.