NHL fines Canadiens, Capitals $25,000 US apiece for scuffle during Game 4 warmup

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 28, 2025 2:19 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

The National Hockey League has fined the Montreal Canadiens and Washington Capitals $25,000 US each for unsportsmanlike behaviour during warmup earlier Game 4, marking different circular of subject successful the testy first-round Stanley Cup playoff series.

The league besides announced Monday that Montreal's Arber Xhekaj was fined $3,385.42 and chap defenceman Dylan McIlrath of Washington $2,018.23, some the maximum allowable nether the corporate bargaining statement betwixt the NHL and the NHL Players' Association, for their actions successful Sunday's incident.

The league did not elaborate connected wherefore the fines were levied, but Capitals caput manager Spencer Carbery said aft Friday's Game 3 successful Montreal the NHL had warned some teams astir engaging successful unsportsmanlike conduct.

The Capitals won Sunday's crippled 5-2 to instrumentality a 3-1 pb successful the best-of-seven first-round bid backmost to Washington for Game 5 connected Wednesday astatine 7 p.m. ET.

It's the 2nd circular of fines issued successful the series, aft Washington's Tom Wilson and Montreal's Josh Anderson were each docked $5,000 for their roles successful a bench-clearing altercation successful Game 3.

The league appears to beryllium trying to ace down connected displays of gamesmanship successful these playoffs.

• The league fined the Senators $25,000 and Ottawa guardant Nick Cousins $2,083.33 aft Cousins changeable a puck astatine Toronto goaltender Anthony Stolarz successful the pre-game warmup of Game 3 of their bid connected Thursday.
• The Winnipeg Jets and St. Louis Blues some received a informing from the league aft Blues goaltender Joel Hofer and Jets guardant Mark Scheifele attempted to outwait each different to beryllium the past disconnected the crystal Friday successful their Game 3 warmup.