{"id":5407,"date":"2013-09-23T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/shanahammered-leafs-f-clarkson-gets-10-game-suspension\/"},"modified":"2013-09-23T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T20:11:00","slug":"shanahammered-leafs-f-clarkson-gets-10-game-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/shanahammered-leafs-f-clarkson-gets-10-game-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanahammered: Leafs F Clarkson gets 10-game suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The National Hockey League handed down a 10- game suspension to Toronto Maple Leafs forward David Clarkson on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson was hit with the punishment for leaving the bench to defend teammate Phil Kessel in a scrap against Buffalo enforcer John Scott, touching off a brawl which interrupted play at the midpoint of the third period in the Leafs&#8217; 5-3 exhibition victory over the Sabres on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old, who signed a lucrative seven-year deal with Toronto this past summer, was assessed a game misconduct penalty under Rule 70.6, which states that a player who was the first or second player to leave the players&#8217; or penalty bench during an altercation or for the purpose of starting an altercation, from either or both teams, should be given a game misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Rule 70.10 stipulates that the punishment for such actions is an automatic suspension &#8220;without pay for the next 10 regular League and\/or playoff games of his team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That means Clarkson will also forfeit $269,230.80 in salary, which automatically goes to the Players&#8217; Emergency Assistance Fund.<\/p>\n<p>He will not be eligible to take the ice until the Maple Leafs&#8217; game on Oct. 25 at Columbus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The National Hockey League handed down a 10- game suspension to Toronto Maple Leafs forward David Clarkson on Monday. Clarkson was hit with the punishment for leaving the bench to defend teammate Phil Kessel in a scrap against Buffalo enforcer John Scott, touching off a brawl which interrupted play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}