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(above) A considerably downsized MSU-Mankato hockey team boards the team buses for their final playoff series in Grand Forks.
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Hockey Players Gone Wild: Mankato Police Raid WCHA Players' House
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Mankato, MN - Four Minnesota State University men’s hockey players who were held out of the last five games of the season by their coach are also named in criminal investigative documents that include allegations of a sex assault and drug use, according to a search warrant filed in Blue Earth County District Court (who's responsible for naming counties in Minnesota?).
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The search warrant filed by Mankato police also names one player from the women’s hockey team and two other players from the men’s team (for those of you keeping score at home thats a total of SEVEN Mankato hockey players. Who's got a MSU game program to keep track of this?).

Police are not commenting on the case (Can you say "Cover Up?") because the investigation is ongoing. No arrests have been made (There isn't enough room in the Mankato jail for the whole team?), nor have charges been filed. A search warrant also is simply a request from police to search a property and does not require in-depth investigation of an incident.

The search warrant details the following events:

Investigators were called to Immanuel St. Joseph’s Hospital Feb. 21 for a report of a sex assault. A woman being treated at the hospital told investigators she had been at a house at 103 Porter Ave. (check the Mankato Free Press Want Ads if you need a nice little three bedroom, two bath bungalow in Mankato. Current occupents have been transferred. Assume lease.), where she had been sexually assaulted after smoking marijuana she suspected was tainted with a white powdery substance (its probably dandruff from a hockey player).

She said she was picked up earlier that morning about 3:30 a.m. by Felicia Nelson, a member of the women’s team, and Austin Sutter, a men’s team player who lives at the Porter Avenue house (hmm. 3:30 in the morning? I've heard of "fashionably late," but this is ridiculous). They went to Sutter’s house and were allegedly joined by men’s players Shane McCormick, Blake Friesen, Brian Kilburg, Christian Toll and Brock Becker (remember these names, because some of them may appear on the All-American team...er...I mean...the All-Bad Boyz Team), according to the court document. The eight of them started smoking marijuana (but not inhaling) before going into the house, the woman told investigators.

Once inside the house, the pipe they were using was loaded again with marijuana and a white substance, she said. At least one other person smoked from the pipe but she told authorities she believed she was the only one who inhaled (the MSU players had one of Coach Jutting's regular Sunday Morning Drug Tests the next day and they are not dummies).

After becoming dazed (& confused) by the drug, she said she was sexually assaulted in a manner that didn’t include intercourse (sounds like most of my dates in college). She said she also remembered feeling pain and hearing voices saying, “Take a picture of that ("Sleeping Girls Gone Wild - Mankato" available online for $14.95),” the search warrant application said.

She told authorities she waited for the others to go to sleep and walked home at about 5 a.m. (Where are their manners? No one walked her home. She could have been attacked).

Police searched the house that evening. They took a glass pipe, a bag with a “green leafy substance" (I hope its Oregano from Mrs. Jutting's famous Lasanga), three cellular camera phones (odds are the cops won't find many victory photos from the WCHA season), a digital camera and a foot massager (with a ribbed tip for her pleasure) from the house. Nelson’s room in the McElroy residence hall on the MSU campus was searched Feb. 27. A cellular camera phone and charger (Good thinking by the cops. How many cases were overturned on appeal when the cell phone went dead during the trail?) were taken by police during that search, court records said.

Officials with the MSU Athletics Department referred media questions about the allegations to Michael Cooper (the former Laker?), MSU spokesman. He said he was aware of the situation involving the hockey players but had not been given all the details that were in court documents. (In other words "We Ain't Talking")

Privacy issues kept him from commenting further, Cooper said.

Becker, Toll, Sutter and McCormick have not played or practiced with the team since Feb. 21. The absence was described as a “coach’s decision” and Coach Troy Jutting has said he can’t comment further (until he buys the video on late night TV).