{"id":7226,"date":"2013-11-01T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/maple-leafs-ashton-suspended-2-games-for-hit\/"},"modified":"2013-11-01T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:11:00","slug":"maple-leafs-ashton-suspended-2-games-for-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/maple-leafs-ashton-suspended-2-games-for-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Ashton suspended 2 games for hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Toronto Maple Leafs forward Carter Ashton was suspended two games without pay for boarding Calgary Flames defenseman Derek Smith, the NHL announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ashton received a boarding penalty for shoving Smith into the boards from several feet away in the second period of Toronto&#8217;s 4-2 win at Calgary on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The hit caused a &#8220;dangerous and violent collision with the boards,&#8221; NHL senior VP of player safety Brendan Shanahan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an extremely dangerous distance from the boards for such a forceful and preventable hit and the results could have been much worse,&#8221; Shanahan said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was not injured on the play and Ashton had no history of suspensions or fines in 24 previous NHL games.<\/p>\n<p>Ashton, 22, was a first-round draft pick by Tampa Bay in 2009. He played 15 games for the Maple Leafs in 2011-12 and has one assist in 10 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>He will forfeit $8,615.38 for the suspension with the money going to the Players&#8217; Emergency Assistance Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Toronto Maple Leafs forward Carter Ashton was suspended two games without pay for boarding Calgary Flames defenseman Derek Smith, the NHL announced Friday. Ashton received a boarding penalty for shoving Smith into the boards from several feet away in the second period of Toronto&#8217;s 4-2 win at Calgary on Wednesday [&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-7226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226","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=7226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}