The AHL has announced that Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins forward Vasily Ponomarev has been suspended one game after he received a match penalty in a game against the Hershey Bears.
The incident occurred in the third period of a Feb. 15 game against the Hershey Bears in which Wilkes-Barre/Scranton lost 403.
Ponomarev punched Bears forward Pierrick Dube in a scrum with his glove on and was assessed a 15 minute match penalty.
The Moscow, RUS., native will miss today (Feb. 16) game against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.
Vasily Ponomarev and Pierrick Dube engage in a scrum, and Ponomarev loses his cool after things appeared to be settled down.
A glove-on punch gets Ponomarev ejected with 7:29 left. Bad time to take a match penalty with his team ahead 3-2. @InsideAHLHockey pic.twitter.com/le7utJNdZ7
— Tony Androckitis* (@TonyAndrock) February 16, 2025
The 22-year-old has 29 points in 34 games with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and no points in four games with Pittsburgh this season. He won the 2022 Calder Cup with the Chicago Wolves.
A second round pick of the Carolina Hurricanes in 2020, Ponomarev was acquired by Pittsburgh last season in the trade that sent Jake Guentzel to Carolina.
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