Yabo’s punishment reduced

The KHL Disciplinary Committee has studied an episode which took place in the 11^th minute of Wednesday’s game between Vityaz and Spartak, involving an illegal hit by the Chekhov forward Jeremy Yablonski on the visitors’ forward Yegor Mikhailov.

Yablonski was originally handed a major plus game misconduct penalty (5+20 minutes) for causing injury in a challenge on a player not in possession of the puck, but having scrutinized the incident, the Committee decided to downgrade the punishment to a minor penalty (2 minutes) for interference.