In the 11th minute of Monday’s game in Omsk between Avangard and Lokomotiv, visiting forward Sergei Plotnikov was adjudged to have struck the head of home forward Evgeny Mozer, for which the Yaroslavl man was sent to the locker room. Having examined the episode, the KHL Disciplinary Committee has upheld the referee’s decision to award a major plus game misconduct penalty (5+20 minutes) for causing injury by checking to the head or neck area, and has disqualified Plotnikov from the next three games.