McDavid suspended for cross-checking Garland

NEW YORK>> Three-time NHL MVP Connor McDavid has been 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. His prior history also includes a $5,000 fine for elbowing in 2021.

McVie, longtime Bruins assistant, dies at 89

BOSTON>> 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 Washington, compiling an overall NHL record of 126-263 with 73 ties in parts of eight seasons from 1975-92.

The Trail, British Columbia, native joined the Bruins as an assistant coach in 1992 and got his name on the Stanley Cup as a team ambassador when it won the 2011 championship.

Green out at least 1 week

SAN FRANCISCO>> Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green will miss at least a week with a strained left calf.

The Warriors said that an MRI determined that Green has only a minor strain and he will be re-evaluated in one week. Green got hurt in the first quarter of a win over Washington on Saturday night.

Green is Golden State’s top defensive player and a key playmaker on offense with Stephen Curry. He is averaging 8.4 points, 6.0 rebounds and 5.4 assists.

DiVincenzo out indefinitely

MEMPHIS, Tenn.>> Donte DiVincenzo, who recently moved into the Minnesota Timberwolves starting lineup, is out indefinitely with a big toe injury, the team announced before its game against the Memphis Grizzlies.

DiVincenzo, a 6-foot-4 guard in his seventh season out of Villanova, had missed the last two games with the injury.

DiVincenzo, who came to Minnesota as part of the trade that sent Karl-Anthony Towns to New York, was averaging 11 points and 3.7 rebounds, along with 3.6 assists for the season.

Vlhova to miss world championships

Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova will miss the Alpine skiing world championships next month and her team says she’s already focusing on the 2026 Winter Games.

Vlhova has been Mikaela Shiffrin’s main rival in slalom for the past decade. However, Shiffrin has also yet to return from abdominal surgery ahead of the world championships being held Feb. 4-16 in Saalbach, Austria. Vlhova has not raced since tearing her right ACL one year ago.