Ducks' James Wisniewski to be suspended eight games, ESPN reports

Ducks’ James Wisniewski to be suspended eight games, ESPN reports

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March 18, 2010 2:29 PM PT

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ESPN is reporting that Ducks defenseman James Wisniewski will be suspended eight games without pay by the NHL for his vicious hit on Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook in the teams’ game Wednesday night at Anaheim.

Seabrook was dazed by the hit, which Wisniewski delivered high and hard and after his skates had lost contact with the ice.

We’ll have more when the punishment is confirmed. The Blackhawks have scheduled a news conference at 5:30 p.m., two hours before they will face the Kings at Staples Center, and we’ll have their reaction to the league’s sentence.

[Updated 2:35 p.m.: TSN is also reporting that Wisniewski will be suspended eight games.]

-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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