Bertuzzi Pleads Guilty

Vancouver Canucks player Todd Bertuzzi pleaded guilty to assault Wednesday, more than nine months after slugging Colorado Avalanche forward Steve Moore from behind and driving his face into the ice during a game.

A lawyer acting on behalf of Moore asked the judge to delay sentencing until January to give his client a chance to travel to Vancouver to make a statement. Moore was hospitalized with three fractured vertebrae, facial cuts, post-concussion symptoms and amnesia.

Judge Herb Weitzel said he would decide later Wednesday when he would deliver his sentence. Full story