IceHogs' Mylymok, Perrott Each Suspended One Game After 10th Fighting Major

The AHL's Player Safety Committee handed down identical one-game suspensions to Rockford IceHogs forward Connor Mylymok and defenseman Andrew Perrott on March 14, each having crossed the league's automatic discipline threshold during the same game the night before.

Both players accumulated their 10th fighting major of the season in Rockford's March 13 contest against Chicago, triggering automatic suspensions under AHL Rule 23.7. The rule requires no discretionary review: reach 10 fighting majors in a season, sit one game. Mylymok and Perrott both hit that number on the same night, making them simultaneous casualties of the same provision.

The suspensions forced both players to miss Rockford's home game against the Iowa Wild on March 14. The IceHogs hosted Iowa at 7 p.m. that evening, with the first 2,500 fans 21 and older receiving a reversible bucket hat courtesy of Bud Light.

What the league's announcement did not include was any description of the specific incidents that produced the fighting majors in the Chicago game, nor any indication of supplemental discipline, fines, or appeals beyond the automatic one-game penalties. The releases also provided no season penalty-minute totals or broader statistical context for either player beyond the fighting-major count.

That two players from the same roster reached the 10-fight threshold in the same game is a notable coincidence, but Rule 23.7 treats each case identically regardless of circumstance. The IceHogs are the primary developmental affiliate of the Chicago Blackhawks, and roster depth becomes a genuine conversation when a forward and a defenseman are simultaneously unavailable under league mandate.