Post by TOMGUNNER on May 20, 2003 7:38:40 GMT -5
Hasek investigated for stick attack
Canadian Press
5/20/2003
TORONTO (CP) - Czech police are investigating former NHL goaltender Dominik Hasek over a stick attack during an in-line hockey game that left another player in a neurosurgical ward with a broken nose and a bruised neck.
"I have never seen such an unbelievable, short-circuited behaviour in my 15-year career," Tomas Wuertherle, the game's referee told the CTK news agency.
The attack allegedly happened on Sunday in Pardubice, according to Czech press reports.
Hasek was playing as a skater for Bonfire Stirda when he and an opposing player, Martin Sila, collided. No penalty was called.
Wuertherle alleged Hasek knocked the player down with a crosscheck to the back, sat on him and hit him in the neck several times with his stick.
The referee said Hasek threatened other players who tried to pull him away.
In a written statement to CTK, Hasek blamed the altercation on what he described as Sila's intentional crosscheck to his kidneys when neither player had the puck.
"In any case, I regret that his alleged injuries happened in the following scrum. If that is the case, I hope he heals soon," Hasek wrote.
A police spokesperson said officials were investigating the incident.
Canadian Press
5/20/2003
TORONTO (CP) - Czech police are investigating former NHL goaltender Dominik Hasek over a stick attack during an in-line hockey game that left another player in a neurosurgical ward with a broken nose and a bruised neck.
"I have never seen such an unbelievable, short-circuited behaviour in my 15-year career," Tomas Wuertherle, the game's referee told the CTK news agency.
The attack allegedly happened on Sunday in Pardubice, according to Czech press reports.
Hasek was playing as a skater for Bonfire Stirda when he and an opposing player, Martin Sila, collided. No penalty was called.
Wuertherle alleged Hasek knocked the player down with a crosscheck to the back, sat on him and hit him in the neck several times with his stick.
The referee said Hasek threatened other players who tried to pull him away.
In a written statement to CTK, Hasek blamed the altercation on what he described as Sila's intentional crosscheck to his kidneys when neither player had the puck.
"In any case, I regret that his alleged injuries happened in the following scrum. If that is the case, I hope he heals soon," Hasek wrote.
A police spokesperson said officials were investigating the incident.
