Vancouver Canucks and Bertuzzi lose appeal
Posted June 5, 2012 6:55 pm.
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TORONTO (NEWS1130) – Lawyers for Todd Bertuzzi and the Vancouver Canucks lost their appeal and now have to turn over the details of the deal they reached last year in the Steve Moore lawsuit.
Moore’s lawyer, Tim Danson, found out Bertuzzi, former Canucks coach Marc Crawford and the team came an agreement on how to share the liability should Moore win the case. He filed a suit to get his hands on it.
Knowledge of the deal surfaced after Bertuzzi dropped a third-party claim against Crawford.
Details of the agreement will not be disclosed to the public until the case goes to trial later this year.
Moore’s civil lawsuit for damages and lost wages stems from an incident during a game on March 8, 2004, in Vancouver between the Canucks and the Colorado Avalanche. Bertuzzi, then with the Canucks, attacked Colorado’s Moore from behind and punched him in the side of the head, driving him to the ice.
Moore suffered three broken vertebrae, deep facial cuts and never played in the NHL again.
The incident was in retaliation to a hit Moore delivered to Canucks star Markus Naslund in a game earlier in the season. Naslund was injured on the play, but Moore did not receive a penalty or any further disciplinary action.
