Former NHL strongman Donald Brashear hasn’t changed his style of play even though he is now retired.
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He violently attacked an opposing player in a game of the Lac au Fleuve Senior Hockey League (LHSLF) last Saturday in Saint-Ambroise, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.
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The incident occurred early in the third period in a clash between Chalets Flamand de Saint-Ambroise and Black Jack de Wendake, the team for which Brashear plays.
Brashear’s victim, Charles Duchesne, received a few punches before falling to the ice in a pool of blood.
The gesture from the former striker earned him an extreme game misconduct.
Brashear will be subject to other sanctions, confirmed the commissioner of the LHSLF, Mathieu Caron, to TVA Nouvelles, without however specifying the details.
“These are gestures that I cannot tolerate. My responsibility is that players can play safely. This is our mission. We will have no choice but to issue sanctions.”
Brashear played in 1,025 NHL games between 1993 and 2010 with the Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Washington Capitals and New York Rangers. He totaled 205 points and 2634 penalty minutes.
This is far from the first time that Brashear has been talked regarding for the wrong reasons. In December 2019, he pleaded guilty to charges of mischief and possession of narcotics. He had been handcuffed a few months earlier, following breaking a window while trying to enter a dwelling from which he had just been evicted in Quebec.
In November 2018, his business, Brash 87 Buildings, filed for bankruptcy and has since been sued in civil court, which ordered the former hockey player to pay $200,000 for defaulted mortgages.
In 2011, he was sentenced to 18 months probation for hitting an opponent following a hockey game in Rivière-du-Loup. Four years later, he was ordered to pay over $9,000 to his victim in that case; the latter demanded $357,000.
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