Former NHL star Paul Bissonnette landed within the hospital after he was assaulted by seven males in a brawl that broke out at an Arizona restaurant over the weekend, he mentioned.
Bissonnette, who performed with the Phoenix Coyotes and is now a hockey analyst and podcaster, mentioned in a video shared to X on Monday that the struggle unfolded at Houston’s, a restaurant in Scottsdale he frequents.
He was seated within the eating room on Sunday evening when he observed “a little bit of a ruckus” unfolding on the bar.
“It was a bunch of drunk golfers. Issues clearly continued to escalate,” Bissonnette mentioned. “They requested one man to depart, after which one man stored getting within the supervisor’s face, put his fingers on him, and that went on for about most likely 30, 45 seconds. And you may inform (the supervisor) was just a little shocked and shocked and shocked.”
Bissonnette mentioned he then went over to intervene.
“So I went over. I simply grabbed the man’s arm that was on him. I mentioned, ‘Sir, when you proceed to harass and assault the workers, we’re gonna have issues.’ After which they only began chucking,” Bissonnette mentioned.
He mentioned the struggle escalated “extraordinarily shortly” and concerned seven males towards him.
The struggle spilled over from the restaurant to the car parking zone, after which to a close-by CVS.
“Acquired taken down a pair occasions. I acquired boot f—ed within the head 3 times by the CVS, fortunately didn’t get knocked out. Did go to the hospital,” he defined.
He mentioned he acquired hit within the face a pair occasions, however it “might have been loads worse.”
“Took some, gave extra,” he continued. “I simply need to thank, not solely the workers for having to place up with that, however the police, who had been very fast to get on the scene, who arrested six of the seven guys.”
The Scottsdale Police Division confirmed the lads assaulted Bissonnette each inside and outdoors the eatery, and he was taken to a hospital to be handled for non-life-threatening accidents.
The six males arrested face assault and disorderly conduct expenses, police mentioned.
Bissonnette described the scenario as “unhealthy dudes” who had been “method too drunk.”
“I’m very, very indignant about these guys,” Bissonnette mentioned. “Simply unacceptable conduct at a household restaurant, simply because they couldn’t seize one other cocktail and didn’t need to hear no for a solution.”