{"id":490399,"date":"2026-03-07T03:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/490399\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:20:20","slug":"penguins-evgeni-malkin-suspended-5-games-by-nhl-for-slashing-sabres-rasmus-dahlin-butler-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/490399\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins\u2019 Evgeni Malkin suspended 5 games by NHL for slashing Sabres\u2019 Rasmus Dahlin \u2013 Butler Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pittsburgh Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin (71) skates during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Buffalo Sabres in Pittsburgh, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/p>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin was suspended for five games for slashing Buffalo defenseman Rasmus Dahlin on the head, a punishment that will cost the Penguins forward nearly $160,000, the NHL announced Friday night.<\/p>\n

Malkin was assessed a minor penalty for cross-checking, a major penalty for slashing<\/a> and a game misconduct 35 seconds into the second period of the Penguins’ 4-1 loss to the Sabres<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Video<\/a> showed that Malkin and Dahlin made contact at the side of the Buffalo net. Dahlin cross-checked Malkin, for which he was penalized, and Malkin responded by raising his stick and striking Dahlin on his helmet and shoulder.<\/p>\n

The NHL’s Department of Player Safety noted that Malkin was not off-balance and the contact was not accidental.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old Malkin has been fined five times and suspended twice previously in his NHL career, one game for high-sticking Philadelphia\u2019s Michael Raffl in February 2019 and four games in April 2022 for cross-checking Nashville\u2019s Mark Borowiecki.<\/p>\n

Malkin has 13 goals and 47 points in 46 games this season and 527 goals and 1,393 points in a 20-year NHL career, all in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

The Penguins are already without captain Sidney Crosby for a minimum of four weeks because of a lower-body injury as the team, currently in second place in the Metropolitan Division, battles for playoff position.<\/p>\n

Under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement and, based on his average annual salary, Malkin will forfeit $158,854.15. That money goes to the Players\u2019 Emergency Assistance Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin (71) skates during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Buffalo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5113],"tags":[12526,12518,12513,12533,12539,12541,12087,12521,12519,1155,12520,12525,12516,12538,12532,12515,12536,12524,12514,5,12527,997,12540,12530,40,4,12517,118,562,12531,1469,100,5216,1011,12522,12535,12534,12523,9809,12529,12528,12537],"class_list":{"0":"post-490399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-bruin","9":"tag-butler","10":"tag-butler-eagle","11":"tag-cabot","12":"tag-callery","13":"tag-cherry-valley","14":"tag-community-news","15":"tag-connoquenessing","16":"tag-cranberry","17":"tag-crime","18":"tag-east-butler","19":"tag-eau-claire","20":"tag-education-news","21":"tag-evans-city","22":"tag-fairview","23":"tag-government-news","24":"tag-harmony","25":"tag-harrisville","26":"tag-high-school-sports-news","27":"tag-hockey","28":"tag-karns-city","29":"tag-local-news","30":"tag-mars","31":"tag-mount-chesnut","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-nhl","34":"tag-obituaries","35":"tag-penguins","36":"tag-pennsylvania","37":"tag-petrolia","38":"tag-pittsburgh","39":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","40":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","41":"tag-political-news","42":"tag-portersville","43":"tag-sarver","44":"tag-saxonburg","45":"tag-slippery-rock","46":"tag-valencia","47":"tag-west-liberty","48":"tag-west-sunbury","49":"tag-zelienople"},"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\/490399","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=490399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}