The Ontario Hockey League has suspended Brampton Steelheads defenseman Luke Dragusica for the rest of the 2025-26 common season and playoffs after slashing Brady Blaseg of the Oshawa Generals within the head throughout a recreation final week.
Dragusica obtained a match penalty for slashing late within the third interval of Brampton’s 3-1 win.
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Dragusica and Blaseg had been concerned in a collison behind the Brampton internet. After Dragusica received on his ft, he swung his stick at Blaseg’s head as Blaseg was skating away. Dragusica then cross-checked Blaseg within the again because the Generals defenseman was mendacity on the ice.
The OHL’s Division of Participant Security used video, recreation studies and interviews from personnel from each groups to return to their determination. “The deliberate use of a stick as a weapon to an opponent’s head, adopted by additional contact on a defenceless participant, is a harmful and unacceptable act that has no place within the OHL,” the league wrote in its decision.
Dragusica can even be required to finish an schooling, counseling and neighborhood service program. He might be required to seem earlier than a Reinstatement Panel earlier than he can apply for reinstatement to play once more subsequent season.
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Having already been out two video games, Dragusica will sit for a minimum of the remaining 47 regular-season video games for the Steelheads, ought to they not make the playoffs.
Blaseg returned for the Generals’ subsequent recreation, however was on the tip of one other suspendable incident when he was hit from behind by Brett Hammond of the Erie Otters. Hammond was ejected and suspended for one recreation.
