Florida’s A.J. Greer has been suspended for three games for boarding Calgary’s Connor Zary. nhl.com/video/topic/pl…
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Panthers’ A.J. Greer suspended three games for hit on Flames forward Connor Zary

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On Friday night, Florida Panthers forward A.J. Greer delivered a pretty scary-looking hit on Calgary Flames forward Connor Zary.
On Sunday night, Greer faced the music for his indiscretion.
As the Flames were on the ice for warm-up for their game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the National Hockey League announced that Greer had been suspended for three games for his hit on Zary. He was assessed a major penalty for interference and a game misconduct in Friday’s game, and the league dubbed the hit a boarding incident when determining supplemental discipline.
Here’s the key excerpt from the Department of Player Safety’s suspension video:
“It is important to note that Greer is in control of this play at all times. First, he hooks Zary enough to cause him to lose his balance slightly. Then, as Zary regains his balance, and at a dangerous distance from the boards, Greer delivers a shove to the upper back of Zary that knocks him to the ice and causes an impact with the wall sufficient for supplemental discipline. If Greer wishes to initiate contact on this play, he must do so in a legal fashion rather than shoving Zary in a way that causes such an impact.”
When Greer’s hearing was announced by the league on Saturday, we looked at some recent boarding suspensions and pointed to a pair from 2022-23 – two-game sit-downs for Montreal’s Josh Anderson and Juraj Slafkovsky – as potential comparables. In both of those incidents, players with minimal Player Safety rap sheets blasted a player in the numbers in a dangerous position on the ice. Given the comparable hits and punishments, and the precedents set, three games feels like about right for the type of hit that Greer threw.
Per Flames head coach Ryan Huska, Zary is day-to-day with an injury suffered on the hit from Greer, and he wasn’t in the lineup on Sunday against Tampa Bay. We’ll see how long it takes before he’s ready to return.
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