Ottawa Senators forward Ridly Greig will have a hearing with the NHL’s Department of Player Safety for roughing Carolina Hurricanes defenceman Sean Walker during Saturday’s season-ending loss in Game 4.
The date and time of the hearing is to be determined.
Ottawa’s Ridly Greig will have a hearing for roughing Carolina’s Sean Walker. Date and time TBD.
— NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) April 26, 2026
Postmedia’s Bruce Garrioch reports that the hearing will take place over the phone, meaning that Greig cannot be suspended for more than five games.
Ridly Greig hearing will be done by phone. That means he can get a maximum of five games #Sens
— Bruce Garrioch (@SunGarrioch) April 26, 2026
TSN Hockey Insider Chris Johnston notes that any supplemental discipline handed down to Greig would carry over into the start of the 2026-27 season with the Senators now eliminated from the playoffs.
Ridly Greig will have a hearing with @NHLPlayerSafety for his sucker punch on Sean Walker yesterday.
— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) April 26, 2026
Any suspension will carry over to next season with the #sens already eliminated.
The incident occurred during a stoppage in play midway through the second period while Walker was tied up in a scrum with Warren Foegele.
Greig approached the two and appeared to throw an uppercut that caught Walker up high and dropped him down to the ice.
The fourth-year skater was not assessed a penalty on the play, though Canes forward Nic Deslauriers and Sens captain Brady Tkachuk were both sent to the box during the scrum.
Carolina would go onto win 4-2 to sweep the series and move on to the second round, handing Ottawa a first-round exit for the second time in as many years.
Greig had previously been suspended for two games in September 2021 for a cross-check on then-Winnipeg Jets forward Pierre-Luc Dubois during a preseason contest.
