The Dallas Stars have made their first appointment with the Department of Player Safety this morning. News broke late last night that blueliner Jamie Oleksiak would be having a discussion with the arbiters of justice for his illegal check to the head of Philadelphia Flyers forward Chris VandeVelde.
Here’s the hit in question:
In the play, VandeVelde has his head down and doesn’t even see Oleksiak coming in on him. If I had to guess, I’d say Oleksiak gets 1-2 games because he hit an unsuspecting player when he could have avoided the hit and the principal point of contact was the head.