Obscure sports trivia

A hockey trivia follow-up:

Would it be Ron Kittle?

 

How about Prince Fielder?

 

Yes, Ron Kittle. He hit 50 homers at Edmonton in 1982 after hitting 40 at Glens Falls in 1981. He then hit 35 with the ChiSox in 1983 and was the AL Rookie of the Year.

 

OK, NOW the hockey trivia follow-up.

Who were the first NHL players to be criminally charged over a brawl on the ice?

 

Do Bertuzzi and Roenick ring a bell??

 

Nope, not the two I'm thinking of.

 

damn it, I know this. My mind keeps going to Dino Ciccarelli after he hit Luke Richardson, but it sounds like you are looking for guys from a fight.

 

On Sept. 2, 1969, the St. Louis Blues were playing the Boston Bruins in an exhibition game when bruins defenseman "Terrible" Ted Green got into a stick-swinging melee with Blues winger Wayne Maki. Green took a stick to his head, fracturing his skull and injuring his brain. Both men were charged with assault but later acquitted.
Maki died of a brain tumor five years later at the age of 29. Green played until 1979, when he went on coach with the Oilers and Rangers.