{"id":541300,"date":"2026-04-05T01:53:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:53:58","slug":"senators-tkachuk-penalized-fined-2500-for-slash-from-the-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541300\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators\u2019 Tkachuk Penalized, Fined $2500 for Slash from the Bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk has been fined $2,500 for a slash from the bench that also earned him a minor penalty against the Buffalo Sabres.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the first period, Ottawa Senators defenseman Jordan Spence bumped Buffalo\u2019s Beck Malenstyn along the boards, pushing him into the bench. Tkachuk, seated on the bench, delivered a downward slash with his stick, catching Malenstyn in the face.\u00a0 The officials spotted the sneaky stickwork, whistling a minor penalty on Tkachuk and pulling him off the bench to head directly to the penalty box.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NHL\u2019s Department of Player Safety followed up the penalty with a monetarily punitive decision of their own, tacking on a $2,500 fine for unsportsmanlike conduct.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Senators went on to defeat the Buffalo Sabres 4-1. Officials for the game were referees Frederick L\u2019Ecuyer (#17) and Chris Rooney (#5) with Mark Shewcyk (#92) and Jeremy Faucher (#97) on the lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk has been fined $2,500 for a slash from the bench that also earned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-541300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-ottawa","11":"tag-ottawa-senators","12":"tag-ottawasenators","13":"tag-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116349610503791458","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541300","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=541300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}