The NHL’s Department Of Player Safety has awarded Gustav Nyquist a 6 game suspension for his high stick on Jared Spurgeon on Sunday's Detroit/Minnesota game. Nyquist was awarded only a 4 minute penalty for his high stick in the game, but the call was blown by the refs and it should have been a 5 minute major and a game misconduct, as the league let the Wild know on Tuesday.
Here is the play in question:
This is clearly high sticking as the raising of Nyquist’s stick made contact to the face of Spurgeon.