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London Knights forward Cole Tymkin has been slapped with an eight-game suspension for what Ontario Hockey League officials are calling a “checking to the head infraction” in a recent game against Kitchener.

A video of the hit, supplied by the OHL, shows a Kitchener Rangers player chasing the puck near centre ice at Budweiser Gardens when Tymkin, 20, body-checks him at the midway point of the first period of their game last Saturday.

The hit sends the Rangers player, Isaac Langdon, cartwheeling through the air before crashing to the ice. The Rangers won the game, 7-2, and Rangers coach Mike McKenzie said he felt the Tymkin hit and its fallout shifted the game’s “momentum” in his team’s favour.

Tymkin has already served two games of the suspension and can return to the lineup on Jan. 19 against Erie.