{"id":445998,"date":"2026-02-04T23:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/445998\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:40:21","slug":"projected-first-overall-nhl-draft-pick-gavin-mckenna-charged-with-felony-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/445998\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected First Overall NHL Draft Pick Gavin McKenna Charged With Felony Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Gavin McKenna<br \/>\n                          Projected No. 1 NHL Draft Pick<br \/>\n                          Charged With Felony Assault<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              February 4, 2026<br \/>\n                            3:26 PM PST\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260204_0b0a9d4d1d26473294eb891913333c6e\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:868027c9-4739-44f8-90ac-2898429837c8\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0b0a9d4d1d26473294eb891913333c6e_md.png\" alt=\"gavin mckenna main getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/gavin-mckenna\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin McKenna<\/a>\u2019s meteoric rise toward NHL superstardom has slammed into a massive off-ice collision.<\/p>\n<p>The Penn State hockey phenom &#8212; widely projected to be the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft &#8212; is dealing with serious legal trouble after cops say he was involved in an alleged late-night fight near campus over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260204_4d14b13a1949491dbcef34fcb8799bf3\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:868027c9-4739-44f8-90ac-2898429837c8\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4d14b13a1949491dbcef34fcb8799bf3_md.png\" alt=\"gavin mckenna sub getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Pennsylvania court docket filed on Wednesday charges the 18-year-old forward with aggravated assault for attempting to cause serious bodily or causing injury with extreme indifference &#8230; along with misdemeanor assault and other lesser charges.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The arresting officer filed McKenna&#8217;s charges on Saturday &#8212; the same day Penn State men&#8217;s hockey played its first-ever game at Beaver Stadium. McKenna scored a goal in the 5-4 overtime loss.<\/p>\n<p>Details surrounding the alleged incident are still unclear &#8230; but one person reportedly suffered a broken jaw, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/onwardstate.com\/2026\/02\/04\/gavin-mckenna-facing-felony-charges-over-incident-at-doggies\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Onward State<\/a>, a Penn State student-run website that first reported the news.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260204_d1b0adde5b044088aa8bf98dd7a96ac9\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:868027c9-4739-44f8-90ac-2898429837c8\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/d1b0adde5b044088aa8bf98dd7a96ac9_md.png\" alt=\"gavin mckenna sub getty 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>McKenna\u2019s case is awaiting a preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n<p>He has been tearing up the hockey world and rocketing up draft boards &#8230; but with the NHL Draft spotlight blazing and scouts watching closely, his future could hinge just as much in a courtroom as it does on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Story developing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gavin McKenna Projected No. 1 NHL Draft Pick Charged With Felony Assault Published February 4, 2026 3:26 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,40,4,43,86,2620],"class_list":{"0":"post-445998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-news","13":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116015008473330759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}