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# Auston Matthews suspended two games for cross-checking Rasmus Dahlin
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/auston-matthews-suspended-two-games-for-cross-checking-rasmus-dahlin-wheel-of-discipline/
- Published: 2022-03-14T17:28:50.000Z
- Updated: 2022-03-14T17:28:50.000Z
- Description: This one turned out to be easy to predict.
- Author: Cathy Squires
- Tags: #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 11:01

The event:

> Dahlin and Matthews get into it, and there probably should be some supplementary discipline to come from that cross-check... [pic.twitter.com/ydaeGIvKbG](https://t.co/ydaeGIvKbG?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — Shayna (@hayyyshayyy) [March 13, 2022](https://twitter.com/hayyyshayyy/status/1503140516199870471?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

The precedents:

See the list in this post, [**Ask Peelsy: How many games for Auston Matthews?**](https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/ask-peelsy-how-many-games-for-auston-matthews/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) but there has only been one cross-checking suspension this season.

The verdict:

> Toronto’s Auston Matthews has been suspended for two games for Cross-checking Buffalo’s Rasmus Dahlin. [https://t.co/yZaJTAZHjv](https://t.co/yZaJTAZHjv?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) [March 14, 2022](https://twitter.com/NHLPlayerSafety/status/1503422011640528901?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

The NHL video explainer is available at the link in the Tweet above, if you want to hear it. The gist of it is that the cross-check hits Dahlin in the neck. The play was not part of hockey action to box out a player, it was retaliation for the shoving match that preceded it.