Canadian hockey dad Jayson G. Stevenson apologized to two Erie County sheriff’s deputies Thursday as he pleaded guilty in Grand Island Town Court to a misdemeanor for the brawl he helped start during a youth tournament last December.

Stevenson, 38, apologized to Deputies Jordan Grabar and Brian O’Hara for fighting with them during the early-morning melee he and two other hockey dads started in the lounge of the Holiday Inn Grand Island Resort Conference Center.

After Stevenson pleaded guilty to attempted obstruction of governmental administration, Town Justice Mark J. Frentzel sentenced him to time served for the two days he spent in jail last December and fined him the maximum-allowable $500. Stevenson also resigned as an assistant hockey team coach during the court proceeding.

Rico H. Razaly, 39, like Stevenson from Cobourg, Ont., was granted an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal on resisting arrest, obstructing and disorderly conduct charges.

Prosecutor John P. Feroleto said Dennis H. Heinz, also 39 and of Cobourg, was allowed to remain free pending further proceedings May 12 because his lawyer was unavailable. He faces charges of resisting arrest, obstruction, disorderly conduct and public lewdness.

Feroleto said that during the disturbance in the hotel lounge at about 2 a. m. Dec. 5, Heinz pulled down his pants and “mooned” lawmen who had been called to quell the drunken behavior by a bunch of hockey dads.

The melee took place during the 38th annual Shootout Classic, a youth hockey tournament that drew 50 teams from more than a dozen states and Canada. The three Cobourg men were briefly jailed after the incident was quelled by deputies, U. S. Border Patrol officers and Town of Tonawanda police.

According to Sheriff’s Office reports, deputies encountered a “bar full of belligerent, obnoxious, intoxicated Ontario men visiting the hotel while in the area for a kids hockey tournament.”

Feroleto said the three men were here for the tournament with their sons, each age 15. Cobourg is about 75 miles east of Toronto on the Lake Ontario shore.

After the brawl, tournament officials said they planned to contact Canadian junior hockey officials and that Cobourg would not be invited back.

It was unclear what prompted the ruckus.