Philadelphia Flyers forward Joel Farabee has been banned three contests for interference on Winnipeg Jets forward Mathieu Perreault, the NHL's Department of Player Safety announced Monday.

Officials assessed Farabee a five-major penalty and a game misconduct Sunday after he caught Perreault with a late, high hit behind the play.

Perreault had to be helped off the ice.

Farabee's suspension further hampers a Flyers club that's already without Travis Konecny, Nolan Patrick, and Oskar Lindblom up front.

The 19-year-old rookie has collected 11 points in 27 games.

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The Arizona Coyotes are closing in on a deal for New Jersey Devils forward Taylor Hall, reports TSN's Darren Dreger.

Arizona is sending New Jersey a first-round pick, a conditional selection, and prospects, according to TSN's Pierre LeBrun.

Hall will likely test the free-agent market this summer, but his agent, Darren Ferris, will listen to extension options if the Coyotes present them, according to Dreger.

New Jersey has held Hall out of its last two games amid the possibility of a trade. The 2018 Hart Trophy winner is a pending unrestricted free agent.

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Anze Kopitar has leapfrogged The Great One.

The Los Angeles Kings captain scored twice in a 4-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday to move past Wayne Gretzky into fourth place on the Kings' all-time points list.

Here's the franchise's updated top five:

Kopitar sits fifth on the club's career goals list, only two markers behind Bernie Nicholls. The Slovenian is also fifth on the team's career assists list, just three helpers shy of Robitaille. Kopitar ranks fourth all time among Los Angeles skaters in games played.

The 32-year-old has returned to form this season despite the Kings' struggles, posting 11 goals and 29 points in 34 contests.

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Anze Kopitar has leapfrogged The Great One.

The Los Angeles Kings captain scored twice in a 4-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday to move past Wayne Gretzky into fourth place on the Kings' all-time points list.

Here's the franchise's updated top five:

Kopitar sits fifth on the club's career goals list, only two markers behind Bernie Nicholls. The Slovenian is also fifth on the team's career assists list, just three helpers shy of Robitaille. Kopitar ranks fourth all time among Los Angeles skaters in games played.

The 32-year-old has returned to form this season despite the Kings' struggles, posting 11 goals and 29 points in 34 contests.

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Rasmus Sandin will represent his home country once again at the upcoming World Junior Hockey Championship.

The Toronto Maple Leafs loaned the defensive prospect to the Swedish national team for the tournament, the NHL club announced Sunday.

Sandin has collected 12 points in 18 games with the AHL's Toronto Marlies this season. He posted a pair of assists in six contests with the Maple Leafs at the start of the campaign.

The 19-year-old, who notched two goals and two assists for Sweden at the previous world junior tourney, will represent the nation for the fourth time in his career.

Toronto selected Sandin 29th overall in the 2018 draft.

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Philadelphia Flyers forward Joel Farabee was tossed from Sunday's game against the Winnipeg Jets for a questionable check on Mathieu Perreault.

Officials assessed Farabee a five-minute interference major and a game misconduct after he caught Perreault up high behind the play midway through the second period.

Jets players Andrew Copp and Nathan Beaulieu helped Perreault off the ice.

Winnipeg scored twice on the ensuing power play and tallied another goal 32 seconds after the man advantage concluded.

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Tyson Barrie appears to have avoided a significant injury.

Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe didn't offer a timeline for the injured defenseman's recovery, but he did shed some light on the blue-liner's status after Barrie was hurt blocking a shot against the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday.

"No update other than his X-rays that we had were negative, but he just didn't feel comfortable enough to go back," Keefe said postgame. "We'll just see how he is when we get home."

Barrie left the Maple Leafs' 4-1 victory midway through the first period after absorbing a shot from Oilers forward Gaetan Haas.

Barrie tested out his ankle several times during subsequent breaks in the action, but the Leafs later said he wouldn't return.

The 28-year-old has collected 13 points in 33 games this season, his first campaign with the Maple Leafs after the Colorado Avalanche traded him to Toronto on July 1.

The Leafs, who just concluded a four-game road trip, host the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night.

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Taylor Hall is sitting out for the second consecutive night.

The New Jersey Devils' star forward isn't in the lineup against the Arizona Coyotes, according to Devils reporter Chris Wescott.

New Jersey held Hall out of Friday's loss to the Colorado Avalanche as a precaution.

The Devils are reportedly listening to offers for the pending unrestricted free agent. The Avalanche, Coyotes, and Florida Panthers have expressed varying degrees of interest in the 2017-18 Hart Trophy winner.

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The New Jersey Devils are withholding Taylor Hall from the lineup on Friday night against the Colorado Avalanche for precautionary reasons, the team announced just before the opening faceoff.

However, New Jersey had nothing to report on a potential trade, a club spokesman told reporters, including The Athletic's Corey Masisak.

More to come.

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Ron Francis says that when he extended Bill Peters' contract in 2016 while the two were with the Carolina Hurricanes, he felt the physical abuse allegation involving Peters and former Hurricanes defenseman Michal Jordan had been dealt with.

“We looked where the team was and how it was playing,” Francis, the former Hurricanes general manager, told the Seattle Times' Geoff Baker. “It was moving in the right direction ... And quite honestly, we looked at that (physical abuse) situation. We addressed it and we felt it was behind him.”

On Nov. 26, Jordan tweeted that during his time in Carolina, Peters kicked him and punched another player in the head on the bench during a game. Francis didn't provide a direct answer when asked if he'd handle the situation differently given the recent abuse allegations against numerous hockey coaches.

“I think you deal with it the best you can with the situation you have at the time,” he said. “... I don’t claim to be perfect. I make mistakes. I try to learn every day from the people I talk with in situations."

Francis said in a Nov. 30 statement that a group of players and hockey staff members told him about the Peters incidents at the time - which would have been between 2014 and 2016 - and he "took immediate action to address the matter and briefed ownership."

The 56-year-old gave his account of the events after former Carolina majority owner Peter Karmanos claimed he wasn't informed of the incidents. Karmanos said he would have fired Peters "in a nanosecond" had Francis made him aware of the physical abuse allegations.

The Calgary Flames also conducted an investigation into Peters' actions following Akim Aliu's revelation that the coach directed the N-word toward him multiple times while the two were with the AHL's Rockford IceHogs in 2009-10. Peters, who had been at the helm in Calgary since 2018, resigned from his post with the Flames in November 2019.

On Tuesday, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman laid out the league's initial plan to address inappropriate conduct, which included a zero-tolerance policy for teams not reporting incidents, a mandatory diversity and inclusion program for coaches and top-level executives, and a potential whistleblower hotline.

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