The NHL’s department of player safety will conduct a hearing with Sharks forward Raffi Torres on Monday, it revealed in a series of tweets on Sunday evening.
Torres waived the right to an in-person hearing, so the NHL can suspend him for five games or more if it so chooses.
The 33-year-old winger received a match penalty for his check to the head of Anaheim’s Jakub Silfverberg on Saturday night in a preseason game at Honda Center.
Torres, who missed most of the 2013-14 season and all of the 2014-15 season with right ACL problems, has been suspended four times in his career.