Friday: The Department of Player Safety has offered Gudas an in-person hearing, meaning they retain the right to suspend him for more than five games. The hearing does not have a date or time as of yet, but John Shannon of Sportsnet reports that Gudas cannot play for the Flyers until he has the hearing.
Thursday: It might be two days in a row that the NHL’s Department of Player Safety needs to hand out a substantial suspension, as Radko Gudas has been thrown out of the Philadelphia-Winnipeg game tonight. Gudas brought his stick down hard on a grounded Mathieu Perreault, and was given a five minute major for slashing and game misconduct penalty.
Should Gudas receive additional discipline, it wouldn’t be the first time. The Philadelphia Flyers defenseman has received six game misconducts in his career, but had avoided suspension until 2015-16. He’s since been suspended twice, once for an illegal check to the head of Mika Zibanejad and once for interference on Austin Czarnik. The latest suspension was for six games, and since he’s a repeat offender the league could come down hard on him for this incident.
Gudas has seen his minutes reduced this season with the young crop of Flyers defenders taking some more responsibility this season. Should he miss a long period of time, it would be interesting to see who Philadelphia would insert into the lineup. Mark Alt is up with the club as the seventh defender, but Samuel Morin could potentially be recalled from the minor leagues.
Two years and still waiting for the so-called Department of Player Safety to come down on PK Subban for his elbow to the head of Claude Giroux. The NHL is a fringe sport because of crap like this.
Ehhhhh I see the intent to slash, but idk about aiming for the head. It’s hard to say with him being off balance and Perrault falling making it worse. Perrault didn’t seem to have any ill effects from it so assuming it wasn’t all too horrible. But it being gudas they’ll probably suspend him 5 games.
The guy is a goon. Period. Get him out of the league. He knew exactly what he was doing and even if he wasn’t aiming for Perreault’s head, the manner and force behind the slash was malicious.
While not elite, he actually has some skill. The NHLPSD picks and chooses who gets disciplined. How else could Marchand be allowed to play in this league?
Last I checked Marchand never slashed his stick down on the back of a guys neck like some executioner. Yea Marchy is a bit dirty but nothing as insane as this was.
You obviously don’t follow hockey. Just take a look at the video highlights Marchand’s spearing incidents. That is insane.
Marchand is dirty: just google Marchand slew foot. He does that maybe every 20 games
A slew foot and some spears to the balls compared to attemlting to behead a guy and end his career and possibly cripple him. Wow you guys are clueless.
10 games should be the result, but who knows? It seems highly hypocritical that the head of player safety owns a company that sells merch with slogans like, “Make Hockey Violent Again”. Things are going to get worse with player safety before they get better.