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Update: Hendricks to have a “phone hearing” for hit on Ekblad, Friedman reports

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This just in from Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, words that Oilers forward Matt Hendricks will have a phone hearing later today for his hit on Florida Panthers d-man Aaron Ekblad.

The NHL reports that “if the Department of Player Safety determines that any Supplemental Discipline from an infraction will result in five games or less or a fine of more than $5,000, the hearing is conducted by phone.”

In the third period of the Edmonton Oilers-Florida Panthers game,Hendricks caught Ekblad with a hellacious hit behind the Florida net.

Should Hendricks be suspended?

On Twitter, former Oilers player Jason Strudwick said: “Very dangerous hit last night by Hendricks. I love what he was trying to accomplish but not the outcome…Was a hit from behind at a high speed… If I had been hit like that I would have been very unhappy.”