
The NHL’s department of player safety will conduct a hearing with Sharks forward Raffi Torres on Monday, it revealed in a series of tweets on Sunday evening.
Torres waived the right to an in-person hearing, meaning the NHL can suspend him for more than five games if it so chooses. The 33-year-old winger received a match penalty for his check to the head of Anaheim’s Jakob Silfverberg on Saturday night in a preseason game at Honda Center.
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Torres, who missed most of the 2013-14 season and all of the 2014-15 season with right ACL problems, has been suspended four times in his career. Most recently, he missed the final six games of the Sharks’ 2013 playoff series with Los Angeles when he hit the Kings’ Jarret Stoll after an in-person meeting with the league in New York. Sharks general manager Doug Wilson later issued a statement disagreeing with the suspension, costing the club a $100,000 fine.
Torres received the third-longest suspension in NHL history for his high hit of Chicago’s Marian Hossa in the 2012 playoffs, serving a 21-game ban that included 13 playoff games and the first eight games of the 2012-13 regular season.
Torres is in the final year of a three-year, $6 million contract with San Jose.