From: Capitol Times
(left) Joe Finley
WCHA commissioner Bruce McLeod said he viewed video of incidents involving North Dakota players and Wisconsin mascot Bucky Badger during Saturday's game. According to those who saw the video, North Dakota defensemen Joe Finley slashed Bucky, who was actually David Blanchard in the costume, across the shins when the mascot was leaving the ice before Saturday's game and North Dakota was skating around the ice.
As North Dakota came onto the ice for the third period, Sioux goaltender Jean-Philippe Lamoureux and Bucky bumped into each other. At the Kohl Center, the dressing rooms for the visiting team and the mascot playing Bucky are in the same hallway, and they share a tunnel to the ice.
McLeod said Finley would be writing a letter of apology to Blanchard (luckily for Finley there's a thick file of apology letters in Coach Hakstol's Office he can choose from). This is not Finley's first brush with the law as he was arrested last year, paid a $475 fine and performed 20 hours of community service over a "loud party" charge.
The commissioner also said he talked to Badgers coach Mike Eaves and Sioux coach Dave Hakstol individually about an incident where they had to be separated following Saturday's game during a verbal confrontation.
McLeod said the coaches would be talking things over in the next few days.
"Under any circumstances, I don't think it's a good thing," McLeod said of the coaches' on-ice dispute.
As North Dakota came onto the ice for the third period, Sioux goaltender Jean-Philippe Lamoureux and Bucky bumped into each other. At the Kohl Center, the dressing rooms for the visiting team and the mascot playing Bucky are in the same hallway, and they share a tunnel to the ice.
McLeod said Finley would be writing a letter of apology to Blanchard (luckily for Finley there's a thick file of apology letters in Coach Hakstol's Office he can choose from). This is not Finley's first brush with the law as he was arrested last year, paid a $475 fine and performed 20 hours of community service over a "loud party" charge.
The commissioner also said he talked to Badgers coach Mike Eaves and Sioux coach Dave Hakstol individually about an incident where they had to be separated following Saturday's game during a verbal confrontation.
McLeod said the coaches would be talking things over in the next few days.
"Under any circumstances, I don't think it's a good thing," McLeod said of the coaches' on-ice dispute.
YouTube Video of UND-Wisconsin fight on Saturday night
3 comments:
Really?... This is enough to make the bad boy list. This blog is getting weaker all the time.
I think we've been consistently weak.
That's right goddard...set the bar low and you'll never let people down:)
Obviously a pissed off anonymous UND fan in the 1st comment. How dare ANYONE...even you Goddard...say anything bad about UND?!?!?
:)
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