DEERFIELD Beach – Former Florida Panthers head mentor Andrew Brunette, who is the New Jersey Devils associate coach, was arrested Wednesday in South Florida and billed with driving below the impact.
Brunette was pulled more than in the Deerfield Seashore location, north of Fort Lauderdale, in accordance to Broward County jail information. He was also billed with two counts of disobeying a stop or produce indication. Brunette posted a $500 bond and was anticipated to be introduced afterwards Wednesday.
The Devils reported in a assertion that they ended up aware of Brunette’s arrest and had been accumulating more information and facts.
The sheriff’s office did not quickly launch a duplicate of Brunette’s arrest report. On the net jail and court information failed to listing an legal professional for Brunette.
Brunette is in his very first season as associate coach of the Devils. He was interim coach of the Florida Panthers very last period immediately after using around when Joel Quenneville resigned for his relationship to a 2010 Chicago Blackhawks sexual abuse scandal.
The Panthers fired Brunette just after they dropped in the second spherical of the playoffs final spring in spite of him primary them to the Presidents’ Trophy as the league’s leading staff throughout the typical season.
The Sudbury, Ontario, native played 1,159 NHL games for Washington, Nashville, Atlanta, Minnesota, Colorado and Chicago from 1995-2012. He was a Wild assistant in 2015-16 and worked on Florida’s staff members from 2019-2022.
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