Florida Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad has been suspended for 20 games by the NHL for violating the league’s Performance Enhancing Substances Program, the NHL announced in a statement Monday.

Aaron Ekblad will miss the remainder of the Florida Panthers' regular season. No, not for an injury, but for violating the NHL's Performance Enhancing Substances Program. On Monday, the NHL ...

Florida Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad was suspended 20 games without pay Monday for violating the NHL and NHL Players' Association's policy on performance-enhancing drugs, taking him off the ...

Ekblad is the first NHL player to be suspended for performance enhancing drugs in nearly seven years. The last time was in 2018, when Ekblad's current Panthers teammate Nate Schmidt was suspended ...