According to the league’s Twitter, the player has been suspended for three regular matches.

On August 23, IIHF disqualified Kuznetsov for four years after cocaine was discovered in his doping test from the World Cup.

Recall that Kuznetsov is the owner of the 2018 Stanley Cup in the “Washington”.

Earlier, the captain of Capitals Russian Alexander Ovechkin said that it was necessary to support Kuznetsov after the cocaine scandal.