Overview
- Player Safety announced Rust will have a hearing for an illegal check to the head, with the date and time yet to be determined.
- Rust delivered a high, blindside hit on Boeser as time expired in Pittsburgh’s 3-2 win, drawing a two-minute minor on the play.
- The Canucks put Boeser on injured reserve retroactive to January 25 and recalled Jonathan Lekkerimäki and Victor Mancini from Abbotsford.
- Canucks coach Adam Foote called it a headshot and winger Jake DeBrusk labeled the play dirty, intensifying scrutiny of the incident.
- Rust has no prior supplemental-discipline history, and any suspension would sideline a top-six Pittsburgh forward during a playoff push.