Three-time NHL MVP Connor McDavid was suspended three games for cross-checking Vancouver’s Conor Garland in the head.

The Edmonton Oilers captain had a hearing with the league’s Department of Player Safety on Monday. The suspension was announced shortly after. It was the second suspension of his career after getting two games for an illegal check to the head in 2019.

Late in the teams’ game Saturday night, McDavid and Garland got tangled up for several seconds. McDavid, after getting to his feet, smacked Garland in the side of his head with the shaft of his stick and was thrown out with a match penalty for intent to injure.

McDavid will be ineligible to play in games Tuesday against Washington, Thursday in a rematch with the Canucks and Saturday when the Oilers host Buffalo. He can return next Monday against Seattle. The second suspension of McDavid’s career will cost him $195,312 in salary.

Blues 5, Golden Knights 4 (SO) >> Jake Neighbours and Brayden Schenn scored during a shootout to lift St. Louis in Las Vegas. St. Louis, which has a 12-8-8 record against the Golden Knights, improved to 4-1-1 in its last six games played in Vegas. Schenn, Neighbours, Nathan Walker and Cam Fowler scored for the Blues in regulation. Jordan Binnington made 28 saves.

Maple leafs 5, Lightning 3 >> Matthew Knies scored two goals and Auston Matthews had a goal and an assist for host Toronto.

Kraken 6, Sabres 4 >> Jamie Oleksiak scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, and Adam Larsson and Jared McCann added scores in the third for host Seattle.

Wild 3, Avalanche 1 >> Yakov Trenin scored against his former team early in the third period for Minnesota in Denver. Jake Middleton had a goal and an assist, Brock Faber also scored and Marc-Andre Fleury made 26 saves for Minnesota.

Islanders 3, Blue Jackets 1 >> Bo Horvat scored twice in New York’s three-goal second period at home. Simon Holmstrom also scored and Mathew Barzal had two assists as the Islanders won their second straight and fifth in seven games. Ilya Sorokin made 25 saves.

Jets icon McVie dies >> Tom McVie, who coached the Winnipeg Jets to the 1979 World Hockey Association championship over Wayne Gretzky’s Edmonton Oilers in the final year before the franchises were absorbed into the NHL, has died. He was 89. McVie was also the Jets’ first coach in the NHL and the Devils’ second after they moved from Colorado in 1982. He also coached the Washington Capitals, compiling an overall NHL record of 126-263 with 73 ties in parts of eight seasons from 1975-92.