The in-person hearing opens up the possibility of a similar punishment to David Perron’s six-gamer for a cross-check on Artem Zub earlier in the season (five-plus games).
Perron had a clean record in terms of supplemental discipline (similar to Rielly) and ended up sitting for six games, much to his dismay:
Perron: “Obviously, I got the guy a little high. I understand there was some discipline that needed to be done there. It just felt like on my side it was pretty excessive for the comparables, the history, my career – a lot of things, really, that played into it.