Who other than these are NHLers were convicted criminals?
Here's a preliminary list just to get the thread going.
Not all are convicted criminals of course, but they had a brush with the law.
Jail time
1949 – Tony Demers (arrested and charged with manslaughter. He beat up a female aquaintance after a night of drinking. Doctors informed the police that the victim appeared to have been beaten. Demers insisted the injuries were sustained when she jumped/fell out from his moving car. She died the following day. Demers was sentenced to 15 years in prison and was released after serving 6 years)
1980 – Greg Carroll (arrested together with 20 other persons in a series of raids by drug squad detectives who had been attempting to break up cocaine rings in Edmonton. He was released on bail, but had to do time in jail. On a charge of possessing narcotics for the purpose of trafficking)
1981 – Steve Durbano (arrested at Toronto International Airport for smuggling cocaine ($71,000 worth of 99-percent-pure cocaine). In 1983 he was sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in that cocaine importing scheme)
1984 – Craig MacTavish (charged with vehicular homicide, killing a 26-year old woman. Since he was drunk he also faced charges for driving under the influence of alcohol, driving to endanger and driving without a Massachusetts driver's license. MacTavish pleaded innocent to the vehicular homicide charge but opted to plead guilty to the vehicular homicide charge under the advice of his attorney. MacTavish was sentenced to one year in prison without the possibility of parole.
1984 – Paul Higgins (convicted of criminal negligence for his role in a high-speed chase in which police chased him on his motorcycle. He was later sentenced to 60 days in jail for a street fight in which Higgins and another man swung baseball bats, hockey sticks and pipes at one another)
1986 – Miroslav Frycer (spent 14 days in the slammer for his second impaired driving conviction)
1986 – Dave Hunter (sentenced to serve four months of jail time as a result of receiving three drunken-driving convictions in 1985 and refusing to take a breathalyzer test. Initially given mandatory 28-day jail sentence, served during the season, The sentence was extended to four months, but Hunter was released on bail and forced to serve the remainder of the sentence during the summer of 1986.
1987 - Jiri Bubla (Sentenced to five years in an Austrian prison for his involvement in an international heroin smuggling ring. He was convicted of smuggling four kilograms (8.8 Ibs) of heroin out of Pakistan and into Canada via Austria while he was playing for the Canucks between 1983 and 1986)
1987 – Bob Probert (jailed one night in Michigan for violating his probation related to a previously unreported DUI conviction)
1988 – Dino Ciccarelli (sentenced to one day in jail for assault and fined $1,000. Ciccarelli attacked then-Maple Leafs rookie defenceman Luke Richardson with his stick)
1989 - Jacques Richard (arrested and charged with importing about $1.8 million worth of cocaine in a golf bag. He was sentenced to seven years in prison)
1989 - Peter Klima (spent 35 days behind bars for drinking and driving)
1989 – Bob Probert (Had a packet of cocaine tucked in his underwear. The cocaine, a total of 14.3 grams, fell out of his underwear during a strip search by U.S. Customs Service agents on the U.S. side of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. The street value of the cocaine found on Probert was thought to be at least $1,500. Probert was charged with drug smuggling. He eventually served a 90-day sentence that resulted from his pleading guilty to federal drug-smuggling charges)
1993 – Dave Hunter (served seven days in jail for his third impaired driving conviction in six months)
1994 – Chris Pronger (arrested for drunk driving in Ohio and had to spend three days in jail and recieved a $483 (U.S.) fine)
1994 - Tom McCarthy (pled guilty to conspiracy to traffick drugs, driving a truckload of marijuana from California to Minnesota. Admitted in court to hauling 150 pounds cross country. He was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison. He spent 32 months in seven different American prisons before being transferred to a Quebec institution. He was released from jail in 1998)
1994 – Billy Tibbetts (charged with assault on a police officer after he shot an undercover police officer with a BB gun and wound up doing three years and three months behind bars. He had six arrests between 1992 (rape) and 1995 and attended five different schools in six years. In 2003 he was stopped by police for a license plate violation)
1997 - Steve Durbano (arrested in St. Catharines, Ontario, for attempting to run a prostitution ring. He was nabbed in a sting operation after a blonde female undercover police officer answered one of his personal ads for his "escort service." She met with Durbano at a Tim Hortons donut shop, where he went over prices of various "acts" and gave her a code name. He was charged with attempting to procure a prostitute a few days later and turned himself in. He had previously been in the slammer for drug smuggling. He had also been caught shoplifting once)
2001 – Mikhail Tatarinov (while drunk and playing cards he knifed a man to death and served time in prison for murder. The prosecutor asked for 14 years in prison. Tatarinov who payed $ 50.000 for his lawyer only spent 11 months in the end, plus got two years of probation. He sat in a cell with eleven other inmates, nine of which had been sentenced for murder. He quit drinking after his release)
2002 – Pete Worrell (pleaded no contest to driving under the influence and was sentenced to 10 days. He was originally charged with seven counts, including drunken driving, leaving the scene of an accident and criminal mischief for kicking a police car's window)
2003 – Rob Ramage (sentenced to four years in 2008. Was found guilty on all five charges he faced, including impaired driving causing death, among other offences. He was banned from driving for five years after his release)
2004 – Rudy Poeschek (charged with assault, driving while prohibited and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. He was sentenced to 45 days in prison, a fine and was banned from driving)
2004 – Tim Conboy (spent on week in jail. Charged with two counts of fourth-degree DWI and one count of a fifth-degree controlled substance violation (marijuana and cocaine)
2004 - Mike Danton (arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder. He pled guilty to attempting to hire a hitman, who was actually a police dispatcher, to murder David Frost, his agent, and was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in a United States federal prison. Danton was eligible for parole and it was granted on September 11, 2009)
2005 - Mikael Lindholm (sentenced to one year in prison (Sweden) for tax fraud and tax evasion)
2006 – Mark Bell (sentenced to six months (later reduced) for a hit and run and driving under the influence)
2010 – Nikolai Khabibulin (sentenced to 30 days in jail for drunk driving and also had to pay a fine and complete an alcohol treatment program. He was found guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol, excessive speeding and driving with a blood alcohol limit twice the legal limit. He served 15 days in jail and 15 days in house arrest.
2012 - Sean McMorrow (sentenced to two years for smuggling marijuana across the border)
2012 – Mike McBain (arrested on felony sex assault and lewdness with a minor, charges that could have gotten him life in prison. He was formally charged with nine counts of sexual assault of a minor. He pleaded guilty to reduced felony charges of attempted sexual assault with a minor under 14 and attempted lewdness with a minor under 14. He was sentenced to prison for four to 15 years for sexually assaulting a girl over a four-year period. McBain was also ordered to register for lifetime supervision as a sex offender. The judge rejected a two- to eight-year sentence recommended by state officials. He abused the girl from the time she was 12 years old.
2014 – Patrick Cote (sentenced to prison for 2½ years following a robbery of two banks in suburban Montreal)
2014 – Slava Voynov (sentenced to a 90-day jail sentence in an upgraded "pay-to-stay" jail in Southern California after his no contest plea to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in Los Angeles Superior Court. After having served his sentence he was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. All started following a dispute with his wife at a team Halloween party, where he allegedly punched her face, and continued at the couple's home in Redondo Beach. There he repeatedly choked and kicked her, then pushed her into a flat-screen TV. Voynov accepted a plea bargain that reduced the charge from a felony to a misdemeanor. Though he pleaded no contest, it's essentially the same as a guilty plea under the Immigration and Nationality Act)
Probation, fines, dropped charges and unknown outcomes
1910 – Rusty Crawford (a future NHL’er was charged with assault on a player in a Saskatchewan pro game. He was allowed out on a $ 500 bail. The newspapers wrote that
“it is understood that several rough characters have come up from Saskatoon to get even with Crawford”)
1912 – Sprague Cleghorn (charged with aggravated assault for hitting Newsy Lalonde with his stick. The charge was later reduced to common assault and Cleghorn was fined $ 50)
1915 – Art Ross (arrested after an NHA game where he beat up an opponent and was charged with disorderly conduct. He was released on $ 100 bail)
1918 – Joe Hall and
Alf Skinner (arrested after a rough NHL-game but were eventually let go on suspended sentence by the Magistrate)
1918 – Sprague Cleghorn (arrested for beating his wife with a crutch while he was recovering from his ankle injuries)
1923 – Sprague Cleghorn (charged with aggravated assault after a 1923 NHL playoff game where he struck Lionel Hitchman in the head with his stick. Cleghorn was found guilty and fined $50)
1925 – Nels Stewart (charged with assault and battery after an USAHA-game where he allegedly attacked a spectator. He failed to appear in municipal court and forfeited his $ 100 bail)
1932 – Dave Trottier (charged with assault. Trottier tried to pass a truck at a narrow section of the road. As Trottier passed the truck he signalled to the driver of the truck to stop, and then opened the door to the truck took hold of the victims leg, and twisted it until it broke in three places)
1942 – Fred Thurier (arrested and charged of failing to report for compulsory military training. He was taken into custody by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
1943 – Jimmy Orlando (arrested and charged with violating the selective service act in claiming to be a war worker. He pleaded guilty and was released under $ 2000 bond)
1946 – Gerry Heffernan (arrested and charged with assaulting a police constable. He was accused of striking the officer with his stick in a QSHL-game. He was released on $ 50 bail)
1948 – Joe Bell, Mike McMahon, Les Douglas, Tom Cooper and Les Hickey (members of the Buffalo Bisons team (AHL) were all accused of beating up a man so badly that it was said he would lose an eye. He was hit several times, knocked to the floor and kicked at least twice. They were arrested on breach of peace following a restaurant disturbance. They were released on bonds of $ 2500 each)
1949 – Ken Reardon, Leo Gravelle and
Billy Reay (they were arrested in their dressing rooms following an NHL-game on the complaints of four spectators, one of whom required emergency treatment for a head wound inflicted by a hockey stick. Reardon allegedly struck the fan over the head with his stick. Bonds of $ 100 each were posted for Reardon and Gravelle. Reay was not booked. When the four fans appeared at the police station, the police found it necessary to keep them apart from the three Canadiens)
1952 – Ray Gariepy (arrested on an assault and battery warrant. The charge came from a hockey fan who said he was struck during an AHL-game. Gariepy allegedly reached out of the penalty box and hit him)
1958 – Bert Olmstead (sentenced to a six month jail term that was later reduced to a fine. Olmstead was convicted of assaulting a man at a banquet. The magistrate called the assault “
an unprovoked attack on a defenceless man for nothing.” The man suffered face and body injuries in the washroom fracas. Olmstead’s defense lawyer argued that the attack was not unprovoked as the man had struck the first blow at Olmstead)
1969 – Wayne Maki and Ted Green (they engaged in a vicious stick fight during an NHL exhibition game, leaving Green with a fractured skull. Both players were charged with assault and both were found not guilty)
1972 - Coach
Al Arbour and players
Floyd Thomson, Phil Roberto and
John Arbour (After a scrap among fans, players and police, Thomson and Roberto were charged with disorderly conduct and assault and battery on policemen. Thomson also was charged with aggravated assault and battery. They were released on a $ 500 bail)
1972 – Dennis Hextall, Dennis O’Brien, Buster Harvey, Jude Drouin, Gilles Gilbert, Ted Harris and
Danny Grant (they were arrested at an Atlanta lounge on charges ranging from public drunkeness to creating a turmoil. They were released on bonds ranging from $ 200 to $ 1300. Hextall, Harvey, Grant and Drouin were charged with creating a turmoil. Gilbert with interferring with a police officer, and Harris with criminal trespass. O’Brien and Harris were released under $ 1300 bond and the other bonds were $ 200)
1975 – Joe Hardy, Wally Weir, Peter Folco, Giles Bilodeau and James Troy (arrested in a scuffle in which two policemen were injured (head) while on duty at a NAHL-game. Hardy and Troy were charged with second degree assault. Weir, Folco and Bilodeau were charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest. Weir, Folco and Bilodeau were in street clothes in the stands because they were under two-game suspensions. The three were released on $ 300 bail)
1975 – Dan Maloney (charged with assault causing bodily harm when he attacked Brian Glennie in an NHL game. Maloney agreed to a plea bargain and did community work to avoid going to jail. He was also banned from playing in Toronto for two years)
1975 – Dave Forbes (charged with aggravated assault after butt-ending Henry Boucha's eye socket. The trial ended with a hung jury, unable to reach a decision and the charges were later dropped. In a civil suit Forbes had to pay an undisclosed amount to be paid over 30 years.
1975 – George Morrison (surrendered to police on a charge of fraud in an alleged $ 300.000 heavy equipment swindle)
1976 - Joe Watson and Bob Kelly (they were two of the four members of the Philadelphia Flyers who were charged with assault by the Ontario crown attorney after they wound up swinging their sticks at fans and a police officer during a brawl in an NHL playoff game. Watson and Kelly eventually pleaded guilty to assault and had to pay a total of $950 in fines)
1976 – Rick Jodzio (charged with assault when he hit Marc Tardif on the head with his stick in a WHA game. Tardif filed a civil lawsuit which was settled for an undisclosed amount and the criminal charge was terminated)
1976 – Joe Watson, Mel Bridgman and
Don Saleski (after a Stanley Cup game Watson was charged with two counts of common assault, two of assaulting police and one of possession of a dangerous weapon, a hockey stick. Bridgman was charged with assault causing bodily harm and Saleski was charged with assault and possession of an offensive weapon)
1976 – Frank Beaton (arrested following an SHL-game. He was charged with assault after a fan was struck by a thrown hockey stick. The fan was struck on the ankle. The incident came after Beaton was hit on the head with a paper cup. Beaton was released on $ 100 cash bond)
1977 – Jim Pettie (arrested after he and several Rochester Americans (AHL) teammates allegedly romped nude through a hotel corridor. He was charged with aggravated assault, being accused of assaulting a police officer who was injured when Pettie threw a shoulder block, sending the officer into a wall)
1977 – Dave ‘Tiger’ Williams (charged with assault after having hit Dennis Owchar with his stick in an NHL game. Williams was found not guilty at the trial)
1977 – Dennis Owchar (charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing justice. His teammate
Russ Anderson allegedly punched two girls at a birthday party. Anderson was not arrested but Owchar was when he refused to leave the room where it all happened)
1977 – Don Murdoch (arrested at Toronto International Airport for attempting to bring drugs across the U.S.-Canada border. Murdoch had 4.8 grams of cocaine, which he was trying to bring from New York to Toronto. The charges led to a Canadian court conviction for possession of cocaine, but Murdoch's sentence was suspended)
1978 – Frank Beaton (arrested between periods of a WHA game. He was charged with assault that he had committed two years before. He had broken the cheekbone of a gas station attendant after punching him because he accidentally spilled gasoline on Beaton’s Corvette)
1982 – Jimmy Mann (pleaded guilty to common assault for breaking the jaw of Paul Gardner in an NHL game and had to pay a $500 fine)
1982 – Ric Nattress (arrested for possessing three grams of marijuana and one gram on hashish in Brantford, Ontario. An undercover narcotics officer had seen Nattress smoking pot as he got into his car. He was fined $150 for the conviction in the Brantford court)
1986 – Bob Probert (arrested for speeding, driving while impaired and refusing to take a breathalyzer test)
1986 – Bob Probert (assaulted a Windsor police officer after a fight outside a local bar)
1986 – Bob Probert (arrested for driving while impaired. Was fined $2,000, and had his driver's license revoked after he was convicted of two drinking-related charges)
1986 – Bobby Hull (charged with assault and battery after allegedly hitting his wife during a late night argument. Hull also took a swing at a Willowbrook police officer who intervened in the argument. Hull spent the rest of the night in jail and posted a bond before being released. Hull eventually pleaded guilty to a charge of assault. Hull was fined $150 and placed on six months` court supervision. The charge of battery was dropped when his wife told authorities she did not want to testify against her husband)
1987 – Steve Thomas (arrested and charged with public lewdness for allegedly urinating on a back wall of the Buffalo Police Headquarters)
1987 - Jamie Macoun (charged with drinking and driving. The charge was reduced to dangerous driving and he payed a $1000 fine)
1987 – Brian ‘Spinner’ Spencer (charged with kidnapping and first-degree murder and faced the death penalty. The jury returned a not guilty verdict in March 1988)
1987 – Dino Ciccarelli (charged with two counts of indecent exposure as his neighbor told police that she saw Ciccarelli outside of his house in just a sweatshirt and no pants. He was arrested after police observed him outside of his house nude on another occasion and charged him with indecent exposure. He pleaded guilty to indecent exposure and was sentenced to one year on probation and had to perform 50 hours of community service)
1988 – Doug Gilmour (A grand jury decided not to indict Gilmour on charges related to alleged sexual relations with a 13-year-old girl. Part of the evidence was a diary in which the girl described a string of sexual encounters with Gilmour.A $1-million civil suit was filed against him and his wife, by the parents of the girl (Gilmour’s baby-sitter).
1990 – John LeClair (charged with drunken driving , but the charge was reduced to careless and negligent driving)
1990 – Mike Keenan (fined $550 and given a year's court supervision for a drunk driving charge)
1990 – Neil Sheehy, Dino Ciccarelli and Geoff Courtnall (they had been accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old woman in a limousine. A Superior Court grand jury declined to file charges against them after a thorough investigation.
Scott Stevens had also been accused of being involved. He was later cleared and no charges against him were brought before the grand jury.
1992 - Dan Quinn (accused of raping a 19-year-old in another player's hotel room. He was formally charged with sexual assualt. He spent a short time in jail before he was released) – The charges were eventually dropped
1992 – Eric Lindros (surrendered to the police after a minor assault charge was filed against him by a 24-year old woman, who told the police that a group of men elbowed her in a Whitby bar, spat beer in her face and poured beer on her head. Lindros filed a counter-charge of assault against the woman)
1992 – John Kordic (charged with assaulting his fiancee)
1992 - Billy Tibbetts (convicted of raping a 15-year old girl. Tibbetts was 17 at the time. Tibbetts was charged with three counts of statutory rape. He pleaded guilty to one count. The judge gave him a suspended sentence)
1993 - Lyndon Byers (had his licence suspended for six months after a drunk-driving conviction)
1994 – Bryan Marchment (arrested on a drunken driving charge)
1994 – Mark Fitzpatrick (arrested and charged with aggravated domestic battery after his pregnant wife told authorities he kicked, grabbed and shoved her during an argument. Fitzpatrick spent a night in jail and was released after posting a $ 15.000 bond)
1994 – Bob Probert (Threatened to kill the arresting officers and threatened the hospital workers after a motorcycle crash that relvealed cocaine and alcohol in his blood)
1994 – Paul Holmgren (arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and evading responsibility after an accident involving his car. Holmgren underwent counseling and evaluation for a month at the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage, Calif. It was Holmgren's 2nd DUI)
1994 - Pat Verbeek, Geoff Sanderson, Mark Janssens, Chris Pronger,Todd Harkins, Marc Potvin and Kevin McCarthy (arrested in Buffalo after a nightclub altercation. They pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of trespassing)
1994 – Bobby Hull (charged with drunk driving)
1995 – Dominik Hasek (fined $850 and community service after an impaired driving conviction in Amherst, N.Y. He also had an incident a few years later in the Czech Republic when he had a DUI and assaulted a player while playing floorball)
1995 – Ed Jovanovski (arrested and charged with sexual assault, after a 24-year-old Windsor woman filed a complaint, but these charges were eventually withdrawn)
1996 – Jere Karalahti (arrested for possession of marijuana, amphetamines and heroin)
1996 – Todd Harvey and Grant Marshall (they were among four men arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 20-year-old woman at a Winnipeg house party. The charges were eventually dropped)
1997 – Sean Burke (arrested on an assault charge (his wife). Was ordered to complete a domestic violence program within the next six months after and pay a $200 fine. Burke was on probation for the next 18 months)
1998 – Radek Bonk (charged with impaired driving)
1998 - Sergei Zubov (arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife, and threatening her with a knife. He was charged with aggravated assault and family violence, a second-degree felony)
1998 – Jesse Boulerice (charged with assault to do great bodily harm after an OHL game where Boulerice hit his opponent with a two-handed “baseball-type swing” of his stick)
1999 – Behn Wilson (charged with a $2.4 million mortgage scam. Wilson submitted inflated income figures to banks to get mortgages totaling $6.8 million. The judge eventually put Wilson on four years probation. As part of his punishment, he had to be confined in a halfway house for the first six months with work-release privileges)
1999 – Lonny Bohonos (arrested and charged with assault for a brawl outside a bar with then Fredericton coach Michel Therrien. The charges were later dropped)
1999 - Sergei Krivokrasov (ordered to undergo counseling as a part of an agreement for dismissal of a domestic violence charge brought by his wife)
1999 – Bryan Fogarty (arrested and charged with drug possession after a break-in at a school in his hometown of Brantford. Fogarty was charged with break and enter and possession of a controlled substance. He was granted a conditional discharge, placed on probation for one year, and was ordered to donate $500 to a local addiction service after he pleaded guilty to one count of mischief)
2000 – Patrick Roy (Arrested on investigation of domestic violence and criminal misconduct charges. The judge issued a restraining order, which required Roy to refrain from alcohol and illegal drugs and possession of guns or weapons)
2000 – Eddie Shack (fined $1,000 for driving under the influence after a charity golf event and his Canadian driver's license was suspended for a year. He also skipped a Court Appearance)
2000 – Ed Belfour (arrested for assault and resisting arrest after a fight at a Dallas hotel with a security guard, putting him in a headlock. He was eventually pepper sprayed because he kicked two officers in the chest as well. He continued to be uncooperative while he was detained in the squad car—kicking wildly and spitting at an officer right after vomiting on his own chest. He then tried to bribe the officers, stating that he would give them $1 billion if they didn’t take him to prison.
He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest and was enrolled in the NHL's substance abuse program)
2000 – Marty McSorley (McSorley swung his stick and hit Donald Brashear in an NHL game. McSorley was charged with assault. The Provincial Court found him guilty of assault with a weapon for his attack on Brashear. He was sentenced to 18 months probation. The trial was the first for an on-ice attack by an NHL player since Dino Ciccarelli's 1988 trial)
2000 – Kevin Stevens (arrested in an East St. Louis, Ill. motel in possession of crack cocaine and $3,000 cash, as well as in the company of a prostitute. He was charged with possession of drugs and soliciting a prostitute, but eventually had his charge reduced to felony drug possession. As a first-time offender, he was able to avoid a prison sentence)
2000 – Teemu Selänne (fined $62,500 for reckless driving (in Finland) and for endangering public safety in a rally car collision)
2001 – Tim Conboy (charged with underage drinking and driving - misdemeanor)
2001 – Sergei Fedorov (charged with misdemeanor impaired driving. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year's probation, directed to perform 100 hours of community service, and ordered to pay fines and court costs)
2001 – Milan Hejduk (arrested on charges of driving under the influence and speeding)
2002 – Tim Conboy (driver underage consumption - misdemeanor)
2002 – Tim Conboy (underage consumption – misdemeanor)
2002 – Joe Corvo (arrested in a Boston restaurant for squeezing a 34-year old woman’s buttocks and then beating her up. Corvo was kicked out of the restaurant for the squeeze, but made the situation much worse as he returned to punch her in the face and then kicked her in the ribs while she was on the ground. He fled the scene but was eventually arrested and charged with indecent assault and battery of a person 14 or over, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (shoe), and regular assault and battery. Corvo pled guilty to the two lesser counts and received a two-year suspended sentence. He was put on probation for three years, and was required to attend anger management sessions. He also faced a civil suit (had to pay $100,000)
2002 – Patrick Cote (charged with possessing more than 30 pounds of marijuana. He was also charged with speeding and failing to comply. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of conspiracy)
2002 – Glenn Anderson (faced possible jail time for failing to pay more than $112,000 in child support for his son (Nicholas). Claimed he was "broke" and unable to find suitable work. A British Columbia agency that tracks down "deadbeat dads" asked a provincial court to jail Anderson.
They brought a motion to have him jailed for contempt of court for his failure to abide by the court order to pay child support. Anderson also challenged whether he was Nicholas' father and asked for a DNA analysis. Results of the test, showed Anderson was a 99.99-per-cent match with Nicholas)
2003 - Donald Brashear (charged with drunk driving)
2003 – Rudy Poeschek (charged with child abuse and false imprisonment)
2003 – Rudy Poeschek (charged of using false information to obtain a prescription pain reliever)
2003 – Dany Heatley (pleaded guilty in 2005 to criminal charges and was sentenced to three years' probation. Also ordered to give 150 speeches on the dangers of speeding, and pay for the cost of investigating the crash)
2003 – Joe Thornton (charged with assaulting and obstructing police) – charges later dropped
2003 – Alexei Zhamnov (charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. He was placed on court supervision for one year and community service for pleading guilty to driving under the influence)
2004 – Todd Bertuzzi (punched Steve Moore from behind in an NHL game which resulted in criminal assault charges against Bertuzzi and a civil lawsuit against Bertuzzi and the Canucks. The civil trial ended 10 years later with all parties agreeing to a confidential settlement)
2004 – Rudy Poeschek (charged with drunk driving)
2004 – Bob Probert (arrested by police after a scuffle on the streets of Delray Beach, Fla. He had to be subdued by tazers.
Probert was charged with three felony counts -- battery on a law-enforcement officer, violently resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. He was jailed without bail. A jury eventually acquitted Probert of all three charges he had faced as a result of the incident)
2004 – Pete Worrell (charged with driving with a suspended license and resisting arrest without violence, both misdemeanors)
2004 – Trevor Daley and Luke Sellars (arrested and charged with uttering death threats following an altercation with a bouncer at a Toronto nightclub. Both players were banned from returning to the city's entertainment district and ordered not to drink or to associate with anyone with a criminal record. They were also instructed not to associate with any member of the Hells Angels and ordered to pay cash deposits of $3,000 each)
2004 – Wojtek Wolski (charged with assault causing bodily harm after a Rosedale "party went bad" and an 18-year-old boy was beaten and hospitalized. Wolski turned himself in.
2005 - Anders Myrvold (arrested for possession of cocaine. He later aquitted in court and only had to pay a small fine)
2005 – Serge Savard (pleaded guilty to impaired driving, not one but two drunk driving charges, after being involved in two separate minor crashes)
2005 – Rudy Poeschek (charged with being a habitual traffic offender, driving with a suspended license, resisting arrest without violence, leaving the scene of an accident with property damage and driving with a child not wearing a seat belt)
2005 - Kristian Huselius,Henrik Tallinder and Andreas Lilja (charged with rape. The case was later dismissed)
2006 – Ryan VanDenbussche (charged with three counts of assaulting a peace officer. Also charged with obstructing and/or resisting a peace officer, and making a threat to cause death or bodily harm) - He was eventually cleared of criminal responsibility
2006 – Ken Daneyko (arrested for drunk driving and faced charges of driving while intoxicated, careless driving and failure to maintain lane)
2006 – Sandis Ozolinsh (pleaded guilty to reduced drunk-driving and speeding charges)
2006 – Rick Tocchet (ordered to serve two years’ probation for financing a gambling ring)
2007 – Ryan Clowe (drunk driving)
2007 – Jere Karalahti (gross drug felony - part of a drug-ring)
2007 – John LeClair (arrested and charged with DUI after refusing a blood-alcohol test. He pleaded not guilty to drunken driving)
2007 – Jay Bouwmeester (arrested and charged with impaired driving. He plead guilty to one count of impaired driving. He was fined $1,000 and banned him from driving in Canada for a year. He also had to pay a $150 victim surcharge)
2007 – Krzysztof Oliwa (charged with assault against his girlfriend. A Court Doctor, pressed charges on behalf of his patient. She sustained a broken nose, choke marks, bruised back, arms, ribs)
2007 – Eric and Jordan Staal (among 14 men arrested in Minnesota and charged with disorderly conduct following Eric’s bachelor party. Eric spent the night in jail, while Jordan was released after being charged with consumption of alcohol under age 21 in addition to disorderly conduct and obstructing the legal process)
2007 - Pasi Nurminen (fined for a barfight)
2008 - Ronnie Sundin (charged with a DUI)
2008 - Fredrik Bremberg (Lindquist) (the police found him sleeping in his car. Bremberg refused to take a breath-alcohol test and was taken into custody on the suspicion of DUI (later confirmed) and for resisting arrest)
2008 - David Legwand (charged with driving under the influence)
2008 - Ryan O’Byrne (felony grand theft)
2008 - Tom Kostopulos (resisting an officer)
2009 – Chris Nilan ( arrested for shoplifting in a Boston mall for trying to steal a bathing suit. He reportedly entered a dressing room of a Lord & Taylor store carrying three pairs of swim shorts and when he left the dressing room, he returned just two. When Nilan was confronted by Security guards, he tried to punch one of the guards.)
2009 – Patrick Kane (arrested in Buffalo, New York, for robbing and assaulting a taxi driver over 20 cents in change. Kane and his cousin punched the cab driver in the face and head, grabbed his throat and broke his glasses in the attack. They also forced the money out of his hand in which they gave him. They fled the scene without paying and were eventually apprehended)
2009 – Chris Chelios (arrested for driving under the influence. His vehicle was towed and Chelios was taken to the Westmont, Ill station, where he was charged, processed, and posted bond. The case was dismissed for lack of probable cause to stop, and evidence on the tape provided that Chelios was not impaired)
2010 – Brett Sutter (arrested after drunkenly punching a cab driver outside a Scottsdale, Arizona, bar)
2010 - Len Barrie (ended a battle with Canada Revenue Agency by pleading guilty to failing to file 2010 corporate income tax returns for a pair of companies that were part of the Bear Mountain development. He paid a $2,000 fine. In 2013, Barrie won a fight with the revenue agency and was acquitted of failing to file taxes in 2008 and 2009 for Bear Mountain Projects Ltd)
2010 – Mark Hardy (arrested in Washington, D.C., for inappropriately touching his 21-year-old daughter. Hardy was staying at the Mayflower Hotel with his daughter, and after visiting a bar and becoming very intoxicated, climbed into his daughter’s bed and fondled her. She filed a complaint to the police, and he was taken into custody)
2011 – Dustin Byfuglien (arrested for operating a motorboat while intoxicated on Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota)
2011 – Shane Churla (arrested after a fit of road rage due to a man not letting him pass on the shoulder. Churla pulled up beside the man and threw coffee at his vehicle. Both men then pulled over to the side of the road. Churla got out of his car and proceeded to kick and punch the man’s BMW bare-knuckled while cursing profusely. Churla dented the man’s door and caved in his sunroof, which amounted to $3,800 in damages)
2011 – Sean Avery (arrested in California on allegations he shoved an officer at his Hollywood Hills home. Avery answered the front door, shoved an officer and slammed the door but cooperated when officers knocked a second time. Avery was booked on suspicion of battery on a police officer. He was released about seven hours later after posting $20,000 bail)
2012 – Ben Eager (arrested and charged with assault, assault with bodily harm and assault with a weapon after a brawl at a Toronto pub. The incident started inside, then spilled onto a patio, where a bouncer had to use a chair to shield himself. The bouncer received serious cuts on his face and rode an ambulance to the hospital)
2012 – Donald Brashear (found guilty of assault and was sentenced to 18 months' probation)
2012 – Riley Sheahan (stopped by police while driving his Jeep the wrong way on a street. He was also wearing a Teletubby costume. He was charged for driving impaired. His blood-alcohol level was almost double of the “super drunk” designation)
2012 – Krzysztof Oliwa (Had a warrant out for his arrest amid allegations of fraud. Accused of attempting to extort a loan from a bank in Lodz, central Poland. The alleged crime took place in July 2009.
2013 – Nikolai Zherdev (Zherdev was involved in a “bar fight” at the Barvikha Luxury Village hotel, in a suburb just outside of Moscow. It is unknown if there were any charges against him. He supposedly assaulted his wife in 2011, although these reports may have been false)
2013 – Semyon Varlamov (charged with third-degree assault for allegedly attacking his girlfriend. Varlamov was free on $5,000 bond and the case was later dismissed)
2014 – Claude Giroux (spent Canada Day night in jail after being arrested for allegedly grabbing a male Ottawa police officer’s buttocks. The officer turned around and told Giroux not to behave like that, but he was grabbed again. At that point, Giroux was taken outside of the bar to be spoken to, and was arrested soon after. He was released without any charges being laid)
2014 – Ryan Malone (arrested and charged of driving under the influence and cocaine possession)
2014 - Marko Jantunen (charged for 15 counts of narcotics (amphetamine) related crimes and DUIs. He was given fines and 3 month probation by a court in Lahti, Finland
2015 - Leo Komarov (fined $ 51,000 CDN in Finland for two counts of speeding and two counts of fraud)
2015 – Darryl Sydor (charged with drunk driving)
2015 - Nathan Paetsch (illegal sports betting)
2015 - Nick Boynton (assault, criminal mischief and harassment)
2015 – Jarret Stoll (arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada on charges of cocaine and MDMA possession. Stoll pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors.
2015 – Mike Richards (arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance (Oxycodone) while entering Canada.
2015 – Stephen Peat (charged with arson with disregard for human life and arson causing property damage in connection to a fire at his father’s home. Peat pleaded guilty to a charge of arson by negligence.
2015 – Dale Purinton (charged on an arrest warrant for burglary in Sylvan Beach, New York. He allegedly broke into a residence and caused physical injury to the sole occupant. Purinton fled the scene before police arrived and the victim was taken by ambulance to hospital.
2015 – Sergei Berezin (arrested in Boca Raton on charges of defrauding Medicaid of millions of dollars (more than $2.7 million). He, his wife and some others had claimed that they lived alone and had no income or that their relatives took care of them. They forged documents and informants helped lead to the arrests)
2015 – David Ling (arrested by the Miami Beach Police for battery against his wife (domestic violence) and third degree grand theft)
2015 – Ryan O’Reilly (arrested and charged with driving a motor vehicle while being impaired and leaving the scene of an accident. O’Reilly was arrested after his pickup truck allegedly struck a Tim Horton’s and he continued to drive the vehicle before abandoning it and moving on foot with an unnamed passenger)
2015 – Clayton Stoner (charged with two counts of making a false statement to obtain a licence, well as one count of hunting without a licence, one count of hunting wildlife out of season, and one count of unlawful possession of dead wildlife. This after he killed, beheaded and then posed with a beloved grizzly bear affectionately known as Cheeky in coastal British Columbia, Canada, in 2013. Stoner shot the bear in the Kwatna River estuary, which is an area First Nations had declared off-limits to trophy hunting )
There are plenty of more instances where NHL players were charged and/or arrested. So just add to the list.
Unknown years:
Dan Cleary (DUI)
Marian Gaborik (DUI and underage drinking?)
Guy Carbonneau (DUI)
Magnus Svensson (twice charged for assault at night clubs/bars)
