Hockey announcer confronted by raucous fan, hit with chair during live broadcast

The Abbotsford Canucks' triumph successful a decisive Game 5 of the second-round American Hockey League's Calder Cup playoff bid against the Colorado Eagles was marred by a chair-throwing incident.

Before the Canucks celebrated a 5-0 triumph and a spot successful the Western Conference Finals, a rowdy instrumentality got into a heated speech with the team's Brandon Astle during the unrecorded broadcast of the matchup.

The Canucks are the Vancouver Canucks' insignificant league affiliate, portion the Eagles service arsenic the developmental affiliate of the NHL's Colorado Avalanche.

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Abbotsford held a 2-0 pb successful the semifinal bid erstwhile a noticeable sound appeared to concisely distract Astle. The broadcaster revealed that the sound was the effect of a instrumentality throwing a chair, which yet struck him successful the leg.

"Got immoderate yahoo chirping astatine maine from behind. Get retired of here! What was helium doing? Security! Try that again," Astle said.

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"I’m fired up. He threw my seat astatine me, deed maine close successful the backmost of the leg. Like, what was helium doing here? Unreal. Have different beer," the broadcaster added.

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After the game, Astle took to his societal media level to connection an apology for his handling of the situation.

"I could person handled this better, but was successful daze & fired up arsenic you tin tell, arsenic that has ne'er happened to maine before…I cognize that 1 yahoo does not bespeak the Eagles enactment oregon their fans & seemingly was recovered and kicked out," helium wrote connected X.

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The Canucks volition conscionable the Texas Stars successful the league finals. The victor volition beforehand to the Calder Cup Finals. Game 1 of the bid begins connected May 29.

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