Wild forward Ryan Hartman has already been suspended once this season and a second may be coming his way. The league announced that will have a phone hearing with the Department of Player Safety on Monday for unsportsmanlike conduct at the end of Saturday’s overtime loss to Vegas.
After Jonathan Marchessault scored with 90 seconds left in overtime into the empty net (meaning Minnesota didn’t receive a point despite losing in extra time), Hartman was yelling from the bench and reportedly threw his stick in the officials’ direction. Hartman was given a ten-minute misconduct for abusive language on the play.
As Michael Russo of The Athletic points out (subscription link), Hartman’s reported actions fall within the parameters of Rule 40.4 which would constitute an automatic three-game suspension at a minimum. The full wording of that rule is as follows:
Any player who, by his actions, physically demeans an official or physically threatens an official by (but not limited to) throwing a stick or any other piece of equipment or object at or in the general direction of an official, shooting the puck at or in the general direction of an official, spitting at or in the general direction of an official, or who deliberately applies physical force to an official solely for the purpose of getting free of such an official during or immediately following an altercation shall be suspended for not less than three (3) games.
It’s unclear if the hearing intends to determine if there is sufficient evidence to give Hartman a three-game ban or if they won’t apply that interpretation.
Hartman has been suspended three times in his career and fined on seven other occasions. If a suspension is levied, he will be considered as a repeat offender which carries a higher level of forfeited salary. For a repeat offender, the divisor in the calculation is 82 while for those who aren’t, the divisor is the number of days in the season. For example, the hypothetical three-game suspension under that rule would cost a repeat offender 3/82 of their AAV while a non-repeat offender would lose 3/192 of their AAV.
Hartman should get the rest of the year. Maybe that will teach him a lesson. The Wild are done and not getting in the playoffs anyway.
The lone bright spot in the Wild season is Brock Faber, My vote for Rookie of the Year.
Faber has been great but Bedards numbers especially being a point per game on a much worse team is more impressive, pretty sure its still Bedards to lose
Bedard 57 Points in 60 Games
Faber 41 Points in 73 Games
Luke Hughes 41 Points in 74 Games
Faber has been great to watch but with Bedards stats in 13 less games having 16 more points, seems like a runaway almost
You are probably right, I’m just saying that it’s always tougher and it usually takes longer for a young defenseman to get into the lineup and stay, Former players and coaches are always talking about young defenders having more responsibility and so much more to learn at the pro level than a forward. Faber has been impressive on a pretty bad team. Faber is a plus player and logging around 25 minutes a night. Bedard will get the ROY but Faber has been better.
Bedard will be around an unacceptable -42 by seasons end.
+- isn’t really a reliable stat in determining awards or performance, because not all plays goals or goals against really involves the player or the player didn’t have an effect on the play so it is misleading in a sense, generally on a last place team you’re most likely to be a minus player and have worse goaltending. WAR and Corsi are pretty much the most used for analytics in determining how good a player is or the impact they make.
Andrei Kostytsen?¿ is the +- warrior XD
It is an overrated stat for sure. Jason Dickinson is my Blackhawks MVP this season.