Links to the Oshie and Radja incident

I figured that I would put something that is positive on here before we get to the more negative story. Folks, lets also not lose perspective, while Oshie screwed up it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out. T.J. Oshie is a great hockey player and I am sure that T.J. and his Fighting Sioux team mates will stay out of trouble the rest of the hockey season. Listening to coach Dave Hakstol the other night on the Fighting Sioux coaches show; lets just say that the Coach was less than happy with the play in the third period Saturday night but also unhappy about what transpired this past weekend after the Saturday night game. Myself, I would not want to be the next person that makes an knuckle headed move like getting arrested.

Links to the Story

Here are some of the links to this story, it seems that T.J. might gotten off a little easier than the UNH player Radja, who also seems to have a history of disciplinary problems.

DURHAM – The University of New Hampshire hockey team will be without leading goal scorer Mike Radja for its two games this weekend, after coach Dick Umile suspended him following his arrest early Sunday in Grand Forks, N.D.

Radja, who had two goals and three assists in UNH's 7-4 win over North Dakota Saturday night – one that salvaged a weekend split – was arrested hours later for disorderly conduct, along with a North Dakota player. He leads the Wildcats with 10 goals.

Umile said Radja, a senior, told him later Sunday of his arrest, which followed a fight between the two players in an elevator on campus.

"That's all I needed to hear and that's enough for me to do what I did," Umile said on Wednesday. "Right now (the suspension) is for at least this weekend."

Radja's suspension will be indefinite; I wonder if the local media will make anything of this little tid bit?

DURHAM - Mike Radja, the University of New Hampshire hockey team's leading goal scorer and one of its assistant captains, has been indefinitely suspended by Coach Dick Umile following his arrest for disorderly conduct early Sunday morning in Grand Forks, N.D.

Just hours after the most productive game of his career - a two-goal, five-point effort in a 7-4 Wildcat win over the University of North Dakota - Radja and Sioux forward TJ Oshie were both arrested by the Grand Forks police. The arrests were made at 2:28 a.m., at a building that lists law offices and accountants among its occupants, but the police would provide no additional details because the case has yet to go to court.

A spokesperson for Grand Forks Municipal Court said an appearance date has been set for Jan. 16. In the meantime, Radja will miss UNH's two games this weekend before Umile reevaluates the situation for the future. Oshie has been handed a one-game suspension by UND.

Naturally, the leftist rag the Red Star and Sickle had to chime in with their own article on this story. Don't get me wrong this is a news story when one of their top rivals top players gets into trouble. I suppose they probably welcome this story because it does take some of the focus off their troubled program that seems to be in disarray themselves.

UND's T.J. Oshie, pride of Warroad hockey, suspended after arrest
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One of the top Minnesota high school hockey players to come out of the state in recent years is in trouble with the law again.

T.J. Oshie, who led Warroad to state titles in 2003 and 2005 and is a first-round draft pick of the St. Louis Blues, has been suspended for the University of North Dakota's next game after being arrested early Sunday, the school announced Wednesday.

According to the Grand Forks Herald, Oshie was arrested for disorderly conduct at 2:28 a.m. Sunday in Grand Forks. A Grand Forks County jailer said Oshie listed the same address as his home, the newspaper said.

Even ESPNU had a piece on this subject:

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- The University of North Dakota has suspended the leading scorer on its men's hockey team after he was arrested over the weekend for disorderly conduct.

Junior forward T.J. Oshie, of Warroad, Minn., will miss Friday's game at St. Cloud State for violating team rules, head coach Dave Hakstol announced Wednesday.

"Right now, it's a one-game suspension," Hakstol said. "I can't get into the whole situation ... I'm disappointed right now.

" Obviously, this will be a public issue," Hakstol said.

Oshie was arrested at 2:28 a.m. on Sunday, Grand Forks police said. The Sioux, ranked No. 8 in the nation, wrapped up a two-game series with visiting New Hampshire on Saturday night. Michael Radja, a New Hampshire player, also was arrested for disorderly conduct, police said.

Radja, the leading scorer for No. 7 New Hampshire, will be suspended for at least two games, coach Dick Umile said.

No details were released by UND.

It's the second time Oshie has been arrested since joining UND. He and former Sioux teammate Jonathan Toews, now with the Chicago Blackhawks, pleaded guilty last year to being minors in a bar. Both were placed on probation and ordered to perform community service.

Oshie, a 6-foot, 192-pound forward leads the Sioux with nine goals. He's tied with two other players for the team lead in points with 16.

The Sioux (9-7-1, 6-6 Western Collegiate Hockey Association) will conclude a two-game series with the Huskies on Saturday.

In the end this story will blow over and be a bad memory, lets just hope that Oshie and the guys don't have anymore eruptions the rest of the way from here.