{"id":137442,"date":"2025-09-12T01:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137442\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T01:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:18:07","slug":"buffalo-sabres-place-development-coach-adam-mair-on-leave-after-drunk-driving-arrest-with-three-children-in-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137442\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres place development coach Adam Mair on leave after drunk-driving arrest with three children in car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> placed player developmental coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/adam-mair\/8466216\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/adam-mair\/8466216\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Mair<\/a> on administrative leave on Thursday after reports surfaced of the former NHL player being arrested on a drunk driving charge with three children in his car last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sabres had no further comment, except to say they are aware of the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WGRZ-TV Buffalo cited court records in reporting Mair was arrested in suburban Rochester, New York, on Sept. 4 after rear-ending another vehicle. The 46-year-old was charged with three felonies and three misdemeanors, including aggravated driving while intoxicated with a child in the vehicle and endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A person at the Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s department confirmed a police report involving Mair was filed on that date, but declined to reveal its contents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A message left with Mair\u2019s lawyer, Stephen Sercu, was not returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WGRZ said a deputy wrote in the police report that he could smell a strong odor of alcohol on Mair\u2019s breath and that his eyes were bloodshot and glassy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said Mair failed field sobriety tests and initially refused to take a chemical breath test after he was taken to the police station. Deputies said Mair changed his mind and took the test and his blood alcohol content was measured at 0.2% \u2013 more than twice the legal limit of 0.08%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">From nearby, Hamilton, Ontario, Mair was a noted hard-hitting center and enjoyed an 11-season NHL career, which included a seven-season stint with the Sabres. He retired after spending 2011-12 in the minors and was eventually hired by the Sabres as a developmental coach in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was placed on leave just as Buffalo opened hosting a five-day prospects tournament involving four other NHL teams. The Sabres are scheduled to open training camp next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">John Wawrow, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 The Buffalo Sabres placed player developmental coach Adam Mair on administrative leave on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-137442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}