Hockey Trouble With Police

Marty McSorley of the Boston Bruins will be charged with assault (one count of assault with a weapon), for his stick attack last month on Donald Brashear of the Vancouver Canucks. Other on-ice violence that has drawn the attention of police:

* 1969--Wayne Maki of St. Louis Blues and Ted Green of Boston were the first NHL players taken to court after a stick-swinging duel in an exhibition game. Green, who suffered a fractured skull, and Maki, who was not injured, were acquitted of assault charges. The NHL suspended Maki for 30 days; Green got a 13-game ban.

* 1977--Toronto’s Dave “Tiger” Williams was acquitted of assault for hitting Pittsburgh’s Dennis Owchar with his stick in a game.

* 1975--Dave Forbes of Boston was charged with aggravated assault after a fight with Minnesota’s Henry Boucha. A nine-day trial ended in a hung jury and charges were dropped when the prosecutor decided not to ask for a second trial.

* 1975--Detroit’s Dan Maloney was acquitted in Toronto of charges of assaulting Maple Leaf defenseman Brian Glennie.

* 1988--Minnesota’s Dino Ciccarelli was sentenced to one day in jail and fined $1,000 for striking Luke Richardson several times in the head with his stick.

* 1998--Jason MacIntyre, who played for Phoenix in the West Coast Hockey League, was fined $500 and ordered to complete an anger management course after he pleaded guilty to third-degree assault. MacIntyre slashed Tacoma’s Thom Cullen in the face with his stick during an intermission. He was banished for life from the WCHL.

* 1999--Dean Trboyevich of Anchorage Aces was suspended for the season, fined an undisclosed sum and put on probation for the 1999-2000 season by the WCHL for a cross-check of Jacques Mailhot of the Fresno Falcons in February 1999. Fresno authorities decided to drop felony assault charges against Trboyevich.

* 1999--A Chicago teenager was charged with aggravated battery for a hit from behind during a high school game that left Neal Goss, 15, paralyzed from the chest down.