The Buffalo Sabres placed player developmental coach Adam Mair 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
The Sabres had no further comment, except to say they are aware of the situation.<\/p>\n
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
A person at the Monroe County Sheriff’s department confirmed a police report involving Mair was filed on that date, but declined to reveal its contents.<\/p>\n
A message left with Mair’s lawyer, Stephen Sercu, was not returned.<\/p>\n
WGRZ said a deputy wrote in the police report that he could smell a strong odour of alcohol on Mair’s breath and that his eyes were bloodshot and glassy.<\/p>\n
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% \u2014 more than twice the legal limit of 0.08%.<\/p>\n
Mair, from Hamilton, was a noted hard-hitting centre and enjoyed an 11-season NHL career, which included a seven-season stint with the Sabres. He also played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New Jersey Devils and Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n
He retired after spending 2011-12 in the minors and was eventually hired by the Sabres as a developmental coach in 2015.<\/p>\n
Mair played for the\u00a0Ohsweken Golden Eagles in the\u00a0Midwestern Junior B Hockey League\u00a0in the 1994-95 season before joining the\u00a0Owen Sound Platers\u00a0of the Ontario Hockey League.<\/p>\n
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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres placed player developmental coach Adam Mair on administrative leave on Thursday after reports surfaced of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-138723","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\/138723","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=138723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}