The true story behind Todd Bertuzzi's backslash on Colorado's Steve Moore before the incident took place in 2004 while playing for the Vancouver Canucks
The true story behind Todd Bertuzzi's backslash on Colorado's Steve Moore before the incident took place in 2004 while playing for the Vancouver Canucks
The true story behind Todd Bertuzzi's backslash on Colorado's Steve Moore before the incident took place in 2004 while playing for the Vancouver Canucks
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Q. On average.
A. Anywhere from maybe 40 to a minute.
110, 15, 20.
MR. DANSON: Right.
A.
sometimes
Depends what’s going on. Even longer
MR. DANSON: Right.
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MR. DANSON: Q.
All right, well maybe 1/11 do
it this way.
When did you decide that you were going
to assault Steve Moore?
A. T!ll give you exactly what I remember, —
okay, and I'll give it to you. what I remember is
coming in at him with another player on our team, on
the far side of the boards, bumping into him.
I
remember skating with him all the way up the ice
asking him to fight. I asked him four, five, six,
seven times to fight. Went all the way...
Q. What are you actually saying? Is that
all you're saying? Let’s fight.
I’m saying let's fight.
Let's fight.
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don’t want to say what exactly I say because there's
two women in here, unless you want me to say it.
Q. No, no no, don’t worry about the two
women.
A. You want me to say it?
Absolutely.
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I called him a fucking pussy. I said,te
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“Let’s go.”
MR. DANSON: Right.
A. I said,
“You want to fight,
I said, “Come on.”
let's go.”
I just kept on trying to engage
him in a fight.
MR. DANSON: Right.
A. 1 was using.words like that and 1
apologize.
MR. DANSON: It’s okay.
A, I was using stuff like that.
MR. DANSON: They've heard worse.
A. Well. : :
MR. ADAIR: ‘They know, they know you're
under oath, Mr. Bertuzzi.
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So that's what was said.
MR. DANSON: Q. All right, and were you
getting angrier and angrier when he was declining
you?
A. I just wanted to fight.
Q. Right, and why did you want to fight?
A. I just, I think I just felt like
fighting.
Q. All right, what did Steve Moore do to
you?
A. It was a situation where we were just
skating up. I asked him to go,
asked him to fight,
asked him to fight and he didn’t want to fight
Thete’s tons of times where I’ve gone or skated6
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around the ice where people have come up to me and
said “Let's fight.” What have I done? So it’s not
about that.
402. Q. All right, so it’s,
say anything to you.
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403. Q.
Steve Moore didn’t
I don’t recall him chirping back.
No, okay. So but at any time during any
of your, the games between Colorado and vancouver
Steve Moore did nothing to offend you personally, did
he?
A. I don’t,
Q.
I don’t recall.
404.
Never did anything untoward in terms of
checking you in an unfair way or an unreasonable way,
if at all?
A. I don't,
a.
I don’t recall.
All right, so, okay, so.
MR. ADATR:
405.
I don't think there's any
suggestion on our part that Mr.
Moore did
anything to, of that kind towards Mr.
Bertuzzi.
We don’t know of anything that he
did.
406. MR. DANSON: Q. All right,.is there any
relationship between what Mr. Crawford said in the
change room between the second and third period and
your decision to fight Steve Moore?
MR. ADAIR: Don't answer that question.
We've been through this repeatedly
407. MR. DANSON: Q.
All right. Is it not a fact