Oilers' Ben Eager charged after Toronto bar fight
CBC News
Posted: Oct 21, 2012 10:49 AM MT
Last Updated: Oct 21, 2012 11:15 AM MT
Edmonton Oilers' Ben Eager, left, checks Phoenix Coyotes Chris Summers during the first period of the NHL hockey game in Edmonton on Saturday, February 25, 2012. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Ulan)
Edmonton Oilers' left-winger Ben Eager has been charged with assault after a bar fight in a Toronto pub Saturday morning, Toronto police tell CBC News.
Police allege Ben Eager and his brother were involved in a disturbance at around 1:00 a.m. at the Quail Pub that sent one 26-year-old man to hospital.
The man suffered non-life threatening injuries, including multiple cuts and bruises to his head, body and face.
Ben Eager is charged with assault causing bodily harm, threaten bodily harm and assault with a weapon.
Eager signed a three-year, $3.3 million US deal with the Oilers in 2011.
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