Detroit Red Wings
Red Wings Chiarot Punished For Spearing
Not the first time Chiarot has been fined for a stick foul
The on-ice officials didn’t catch the infraction, but the NHL has ensured that Detroit Red Wings defenseman Ben Chiarot would be punished nonetheless. The NHL Department of Player Safety has fined Chiarot $5,000 for spearing New Jersey Devils defenseman Simon Nemec. That’s the maximum allowable fine under the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement.
NEWS: #LGRW D Ben Chiarot has been fined $5,000 (max allowable under CBA) for spearing #NJDevils D Simon Nemec. pic.twitter.com/fscNm4EBRK
— NHL News (@PuckReportNHL) November 25, 2025
The incident occurred with just over six minutes left in the third period in Monday’s game. As the two teams were engaging in a scrum of the Devils’ net, Chiarot speared Nemec. Chiarot was not penalized on the play. New Jersey won the game 4-3.
In reality, Chiarot got off lucky. During the scrum, he put his stick behind his back and drove the butt end of the stick into Nemec, out of the sightline of the officials. Butt-ending a player is punishable from anywhere to a major penalty, up to a match penalty if the player on the receiving end of the butt end is injured.
Not The First Time Red Wings’ Chiarot Has Been In Trouble
Another stroke of good fortune for Chiarot is that previous infractions have a shelf life. Eight years ago to the day on November 25, 2017, Chiarot, then with the Winnipeg Jets, was fined $3,763.44 – at the time the maximum allowable under the CBA – for butt-ending then-Anaheim Ducks forward Corey Perry in the chin during a November 24, 2017 game.
Crazy how much Corey Perry's chin resembles the outline of #nhljets Ben Chiarot's butt-end. #NHL is reviewing the incident. No call on play, could've been a match penalty. Perry needed 20 stitches, including some below top layer of skin. pic.twitter.com/VfWOzNbwqz
— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) November 25, 2017
Perry was seriously injured in that instance. He required 20 stitches to repair the damage done to his chin.
Fortunately for Chiarot, the statute of limitations on that infraction has expired. Thus, it couldn’t be factored into this ruling.
Dumbass. Another Yzerblunder. LGRW
Takes one to know one, eh PDH? Sometimes a guy deserves a butt end. Nice to see a Wing play old time hockey now and then.
Old time hockey is dropping the gloves. Not a cowardly act of using your stick as a weapon to the face of an opponent in a deliberate attempt to injure. Surprised the league did not suspend him. No place for that in the game, now or in the past. Get real, my friend.
Incorrect. Dropping the gloves was a product of the old time hockey style of play. OTH was aggressive, hard-nosed and even brutal at times. Thus, there is a spearing penalty because it did happen. Know the sport you seem to claim be an expert on, my friend.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving
Somebody should ” punish ” Hamonic for that brutal turnover.. Anybody else wonder why he’s even playing?
Everyone except Yzerman.
Situations like Larkin getting injured in Ottawa where Perron stood up for him afterward happen because other teams know there is little OTH to the Red Wings. As coach, team and fans have said, they need to be harder to play against.