Matt Rempe offered in-person hearing with Department of Player Safety

Rangers winger Matt Rempe got an opportunity to return to New York following the trade of Kaapo Kakko earlier in the week.  In his first game back, he made a big impression, but not the one he was necessarily looking to make.  The NHL announced Saturday that he had been offered an in-person hearing for a hit made on Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen on Friday; a clip of the hit via B/R Open Ice can be found here.

The hit came in the third period Friday night, and he received a five-minute major for elbowing and a game misconduct. Notably, the league’s release indicates that elbowing and boarding are among the grounds being considered for supplemental discipline.

The NHL can now suspend Rempe for more than five games by offering an in-person hearing, which would have been the maximum had it been a telephone hearing. However, their offering doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll receive six or more games. The date and time of the hearing have yet to be determined, but Rempe won’t be eligible to play in the meantime.

Rempe has played in 22 regular-season games, and this was the fourth ejection of his young career. He has been suspended once before, in March, when he received a four-game ban for elbowing. He will fall under repeat offender status when it comes to determining both the length of suspension and the calculation of forfeited wages, where the denominator will be 82 (representing games) instead of the number of days in a particular season.