NHL to Other Leagues: See? We've Got Hooligans Too!
8 Comments Published by Sherry on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 6:18 PM.
Frustrated with the lack of news the NHL has been making lately, the Staal brothers decided to take some initiative:
Carolina Hurricanes' centre Eric Staal and younger brother, Pittsburgh Penguins' Jordan Staal, were among 14 people arrested in Cook County, Minnesota Monday after the elder Staal's bachelor party got out of hand.
Both brothers were charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing the legal process, while Jordan was also charged with consumption of alcohol while under 21 years of age. Eric's agent, Rick Curran, said he expected the misdemeanor charges to be reduced or dismissed.
According to a statement released by the Cook County Sheriff's office, after the Sheriff's office received complaints about "screaming, yelling and playing loud music," the group of about 20 was warned "multiple times" before it was ordered to leave the resort by Sheriff's deputies, a Minnesota State Patrol trooper and a U.S. Border Patrol agent at 3 a.m. Monday.
"After leaving the property, the group gathered on Highway 61 and began harassing passing motorists," the Sheriff's office said, at which point 14 members of the group were arrested at approximately 4 a.m. Eric Staal was one of 10 people to spend the night in jail.
Thanks, Eric and Jordan. It's very thoughtful of you to give us bored bloggers some news to get us through the off-season. Try harder next time, because it isn't really a night of drunken debauchery unless there's nudity and one of you ends up married to somebody you shouldn't be married to.
Thanks to NHL Fanhouse for the mugs
Labels: crimes, eric staal, high hilarity, jordan staal, scandal
There is only so much debauchery that can happen in that part of the world...
Haha, well having never been there myself, I wouldn't really know. Frankly, it all sounds pretty lame since I deal with loud drunken boys practically every night in college :P
Is it bad that this has like been the highlight of my off season?? I mean honestly...haha.
Lutsen is a tiny town on the shore of Lake Superior in northern MN. There isn't really anyone around to harass, and they much have used all the law enforcement in the whole county to haul them in. Not a very highly populated area, especially between 5 PM on Sunday, and 5 PM on Friday.
Bethany - No shame in that. It's sort of been an uneventful off-season all around. So nice of the Staal boys to give us something to talk about.
Kirsten - So...a prime place for the boys to be goofing off then? :D
Pretty much...not that I would know about anything like that in northern MN. I now declare myself to be cooler, since *I* didn't get caught.
In order to fully promote the NHL as a league on par with the NFL and the NBA, I suggest the Staal brothers do their part to draw as much attention to themselves as possible: marry each other.
Kirsten, hands down you are by far cooler than the Staalies.
DLS - Well, that certainly does fall under the 'being married to someone you shouldn't be' rule...