On Wednesday night, Calgary Flames forward Connor Zary received an interference penalty for a high hit on Vancouver Canucks defenceman Elias Pettersson.

On Thursday morning, the National Hockey League’s Department of Player Safety announced that Zary will have a hearing with them regarding the incident. Hearings with Player Safety usually result in supplemental discipline towards a player.

The incident occurred 11:17 into the first period, as Pettersson body checked Nazem Kadri just after he entered the Canucks zone and threw the puck on net. The hit on Kadri was a clean shoulder check, and Kadri was knocked down and got back up quickly.

Continuing a season-long trend of younger players sticking up for veterans, Zary made a bee-line for Pettersson. Except Pettersson was tracking the puck rather than expecting to engage another Flames player in physicality, and Zary ended up decking him in the head and neck region with his right glove and arm, knocking him to the ice and starting a scrum on the ice.

Pettersson had two short shifts following the incident, but left the game after the first period and did not return. The Canucks, playing with five defencemen, beat the Flames by a 4-3 score in a shootout.

This is Zary’s first brush with Player Safety, as he has yet to be fined or suspended so far in his NHL career.

If Zary’s suspended, then the Flames would potentially be without both him and Mikael Backlund for Friday’s game against Colorado. Backlund left Wednesday’s game in the first period with an upper body injury.

The Flames haven’t faced any supplemental discipline this season. Last season three Flames were suspended for three separate incidents, with Rasmus Andersson, Andrew Mangiapane and Martin Pospisil missing a combined eight games.