The identities of the six men who got into a scuffle with former hockey player Paul Bissonnette at an Arizona restaurant have been revealed.
Henry Mesker, John Carroll, William Carroll, Danny Bradley, Edward Jennings and Sean Daly got into a fistfight Sunday night with a former NHLer from Barstool Sports, a popular podcaster with the Houstons in Scottsdale. He was arrested on suspicion of doing so.
According to hockeyfights.com, Bissonnette, a longtime enforcer in the league who has played in 69 games in his career, seems to have settled in a bit.
Photographs of the six men's faces show several cuts and bruises.
Mr Bissonnette claims he intervened after seeing a group of “drunken golfers” behaving harshly with restaurant staff.
The former Arizona Coyotes forward said that at one point, one of the men got in the manager's face and started getting violent.
“I could see he was a little shocked, surprised and stunned,” Bissonnette said in a video posted to social media. “It's a family restaurant. I don't think there was anyone who could have gone to help him. I went over there and grabbed the arm of the guy who was on top of him and said, 'Sir, if you're a member of staff, If we continue to harass and assault people, we will have problems.”
“And they just started chucking, so it escalated very quickly.”
Bissonnette admitted he was also slightly roughed up during the 7-1 brawl, but one assailant was still at large.
“I got knocked down a few times,” he said. “CVS failed me to boot a few times. Luckily I didn't get knocked out. I went to the hospital and that's what everyone is reading. They're just bad guys. They were too drunk and they I don't know what else they had.
“I'm very, very angry at them and I want their names to go out into the world and the Pied Piper to pay.”
Six of the men were jailed for assault, and some for disturbing the peace. TMZ Sports.
Daley is being held on a felony charge, according to multiple reports.
