Flyers’ Garnet Hathaway fined $5,000 for kneeing Blue Jackets’ Zach Werenski

The Columbus Blue Jackets are without the services of No. 1 defenseman Zach Werenski for the next one to two weeks after placing him on injured reserve Friday. The reason: he suffered a quad contusion on a collision with Philadelphia Flyers right winger Garnet Hathaway. The NHL’s Department of Player Safety decided that the play wasn’t clean and handed Hathaway a $5,000 fine Friday, the maximum allowable under the collective bargaining agreement, for kneeing.

An injury cannot determine whether the perpetrator of an illegal play will receive supplemental discipline. If the DOPS decides a play is illegal and warrants supplemental discipline, however, the injury can impact the severity of the punishment, which makes the fact Hathaway received just a fine a mild surprise. Evidently, the DOPS didn’t deem the play predatory enough to require a suspension.

Hathaway, 31, signed with the Flyers this past summer as an unrestricted free agent on a two-year contract at a $2.375 million AAV after finishing last season as a trade-deadline rental with the Boston Bruins. A heavy-hitting grinder at 6-foot-3 and 208 pounds, he has carried a reputation as a strong defensive forward across his 458 career games.

Hathaway averages more than a penalty minute per game in his career and isn’t a stranger to the principal’s office. He was suspended three games in 2019 for spitting on an opponent and had been fined on two other occasions before Friday’s news – once for embellishment in March 2022 and again in November 2022 for fighting in the middle of an on-ice official review.

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