New York Rangers ahead Matt Rempe has been suspended 4 video games for elbowing New Jersey Devils defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler on Monday evening. After reviewing the play, the NHL Division of Participant Security deemed the hit to be unlawful.
Late within the second interval, Rempe went to put an enormous hit on Siegenthaler when he raised his elbow and made contact with Siegenthaler’s head. The Devils’ defenseman left the sport with an harm, and Rempe was assessed a sport misconduct.
Rempe had a listening to with the Division of Participant Security on Tuesday, and he wound up getting a four-game suspension. In its clarification video, the league mentioned the hit was not the results of unlucky timing from both occasion.
“This isn’t a case through which a sudden motion by a participant receiving the test turns a authorized test into an unlawful one,” the DoPS mentioned in its video. “Nor will we consider that is incidental contact as a participant is bracing for the boards or one other participant.”
The league additionally asserted that Rempe selected to “flare his elbow up and away from his physique” as soon as he realized he may miss his test.
That is the second consecutive sport between these two video games through which Rempe has thrown an unlawful hit. On Feb. 22, Rempe obtained a match penalty for his hit on Nathan Bastian.
In his postgame press convention, Devils ahead Kurtis MacDermid mentioned he supplied to drop the gloves with Rempe as retribution for that hit on Bastian. MacDermid mentioned Rempe declined after which ripped the rookie for the best way he went concerning the scenario.
“After a success like that, it sort of goes with out saying that it is best to reply the bell ultimately and be a person about it,” MacDermid mentioned. “Recreation goes on, and he throws one other hit like that and will get kicked out. Potential suspension. There is a proper solution to go about issues and a fallacious method. I sort of misplaced numerous respect for him tonight.”
Rempe will now miss video games towards the Carolina Hurricanes, Tampa Bay Lightning, Pittsburgh Penguins, and New York Islanders. He’ll be eligible to return on Tuesday evening towards the Winnipeg Jets.
