The Hockey Show: The Punch Heard Round State College (feat. Greg Wyshynski)
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With David Droga, the Hockey News, Ethan and Rose in the other studio. I'm Roy Bellamy. This is the Hockey Show. You can check us out on YouTube at the Hockey Show DLS, on TikTok at the Hockey Show 7, and on X, Instagram and threads at Hockey Show DLS. We're going to talk about Stadium Series and the Artemi Panarin trade with Greg Brzezinski of ESPN. He's the senior NHL writer over there. But first, we're going to talk about the big news that came out of college hockey.
McKenna.
Thank you. You got it. You got it.
Get your Florida Panther, Gavin McKenna. Let's be very clear.
We'll get to that as well. Gavin McKenna has been charged with felony assaults as well as several other charges after getting into a fight with a guy that he and a group of people that McKenna was a part of got into a verbal spat. Apparently McKenna. Punched the guy in the face twice, broke his jaw, knocked out a tooth as well. Some blood splattered all over the sidewalk. It was a mess. It was sent on the police report right out of his face twice. So that jaw is broken. First degree felony aggregated, aggregated assault. in Pennsylvania is a maximum of 20 years and or $25,000 in a fine. This is a career-altering situation for a guy that might go number one in the draft this year. He's also in the first year at Penn State after playing three years in juniors.
So this could go in any direction, David. What do you think?
You said he got hit in the right side of his face? The right side of his face twice. Gavin McKenna's a lefty, so I guess that kind of makes sense.
Yeah, that kind of tracks, right?
Yeah. I've been thinking about it since this came out. Have we ever seen a top draft prospect? Draft prospect? I can't even talk. Prospect? Have we ever seen a top draft prospect get arrested or have any kind of charge? Anything like this in the months leading up to the draft? I feel like this is very unprecedented.
There was that Hockey Canada 5 thing.
Yeah, but they had already been drafted.
No, they had already been drafted.
Carter Hart was already in the league. This is like, I don't know, this is like going back to draft day when Arian Foster's character got in a fight when he was the FSU running back. Do we take him in the first round? I don't know. That was the only comparable that I could think of, and that's fiction. Dolphins had a draft pick that had a...
What happened in the fight involving Gavin McKenna?
Yeah, let me tell you.
But he didn't get arrested. He took a pic in a face-bond mask thing.
Yeah, that was the most badass thing of all time.
That's awesome. Yeah, it was badass. I wanted to hang out with him after seeing that. I wanted to dress him twice. Of course you did.
There are some details that have been reported that we should add in, which is that apparently the victim in this case was verbally assaulting or verbally abusing Gavin McKenna's mom.
Oh, no! Allegedly. This is unconfirmed. Allegedly. This was a photograph of a text message that got tweeted out.
There was also some more reporting from other people on scene, not just the text message. Basically, the point being that there's two sides to every story.
Even still, though, like, I'm sorry. If you're a potential number one draft pick, you're going to get heckled. You're going to get razed. People are going to chirp you out in public.
Yeah, but don't go after my mom, dude. I don't care. Don't go after my mom. Don't go after my future. Don't call my mom names. Don't call my mom a very terrible thing to call your mom. No, be a bigger man, dude.
You're some schmuck stranger. Like, who gives a shit? It's just some rando that you're never going to see again. He's jeopardizing his whole future. Kid's, like, 17 years old.
No, I don't care. And somebody's, like, verbally assaulting your mother. Like...
He was with his whole team. He was with a group of people, okay? If he's a hothead and his people know that, get him away from this dude. Don't let this happen. There's a lot of safeguards, I feel like, that were failed that let this happen that got him charged.
That's fair, but, I mean, look, I think...
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