{"id":449089,"date":"2026-02-06T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/449089\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:15:09","slug":"social-media-reacts-to-gavin-mckenna-being-charged-with-a-felony-for-aggravated-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/449089\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Reacts To Gavin McKenna Being Charged With A Felony For Aggravated Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<a title=\"Home\" href=\"https:\/\/onwardstate.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"terminal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cropped-Onward-State-Site-Logo_r.png\" draggable=\"false\" alt=\"Onward State\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Enter a search term for instant results\n    <\/p>\n<p>            Enter a search term for instant results\n    <\/p>\n<p><img width=\"751\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mhky11.14-11.jpg\" class=\"attachment-terminal-uncut-thumbnail-large size-terminal-uncut-thumbnail-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/> Ella Wehmeyer | Onward State<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, it was released that star Penn State men\u2019s hockey player <a href=\"https:\/\/onwardstate.com\/2026\/02\/04\/gavin-mckenna-facing-felony-charges-over-january-31-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Gavin McKenna was being charged with a felony for aggravated assault<\/a>, among other charges.<\/p>\n<p>The hockey world reacted quickly to the news. We\u2019ve gathered some of the most popular posts regarding the incident. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can take the kid out of the western league but can\u2019t take the western league out of the kid.  Rob Blake got into a fight on the ride to the draft and he\u2019s in the hall of fame just saying<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Whitney (@ryanwhitney6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanwhitney6\/status\/2019189444939505897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ryan Whitney, former NHL player and member of Spittin\u2019 Chiclets, commented on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Grinnell, also a part of Spittin\u2019 Chiclets, made a video regarding McKenna, reiterating Whitney\u2019s point.<\/p>\n<p>Wise words!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, hey blog!<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gavin McKenna is a disgrace to the sport of hockey. Committing felonies in your draft year is disgusting and I personally believe he should fall to the Oilers in the draft as punishment <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5IDC4Iy521\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/5IDC4Iy521<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KANE IS THE GOAT (@Howard4Hart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Howard4Hart\/status\/2019172020370698368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of jokes about McKenna being drafted to other teams now. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I can\u2019t believe people are hoping Gavin McKenna\u2019s reputation and career are over after he defended his own mother from a guy who was harassing her.<\/p>\n<p>Shut up and go be in your agenda pushing feelings somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>You people are losers, cancel culture mob mentality is the issue<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jayden Homuth (@HomuthHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HomuthHockey\/status\/2019206213591003602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot of strong opinion circulating on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Jump scare.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Ethan.<\/p>\n<p>You never know. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, TikTok edits. What could\u2019ve been (and might still be).<\/p>\n<p>A lot of them.<\/p>\n<p>Please choose an option below.<\/p>\n<p>\tSign up for our e-mail newsletter: <\/p>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<p>\tAbout the Author<br \/>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/52800911856_59cd1aae88_o-scaled.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-full photo\" alt=\"\" scheme=\"https\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Alex is a third-year Journalism major from Sarasota, Florida. Alex is a huge Tampa Bay sports fan and even has a cat named Kucherov. You can contact her at <a href=\"https:\/\/onwardstate.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"65040316535d5351251516104b000110\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enter a search term for instant results Enter a search term for instant results Ella Wehmeyer | Onward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[2144,8826,603,54414,17502,766,54415,20596,54416,54417,54418,5,3163,20770,3830,54419,2146,2147,4765,2150,5336,311,7667,54420,54421,7166,17278,13520,54422,7178,54423],"class_list":["post-449089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-big-ten","tag-blog","tag-draft","tag-edits","tag-gavin","tag-gavin-mckenna","tag-gavin-mckenna-assult","tag-gavin-mckenna-college-hockey","tag-gavin-mckenna-figh","tag-gavin-mckenna-incident","tag-gavin-mckenna-onward-state","tag-hockey","tag-instagram","tag-mckenna","tag-media","tag-mike-grinnell","tag-onward-state","tag-penn-state","tag-penn-state-mens-hockey","tag-psu","tag-ryan-whitney","tag-social","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-gavin-mckenna","tag-social-media-reacts","tag-spittin-chiclets","tag-state-college","tag-tiktok","tag-tiktok-edits","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-gavin-mckenna"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449089","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=449089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}