Description On February 16, 2004, during a Vancouver-Colorado game, Avalanche center Steve Moore injured Canucks team captain Markus Näslund by checking him in the head area after play had stopped while Näslund was reaching for a puck ahead of him with his head down. Näslund, the league's leading scorer at the time, suffered a minor concussion and a bonechip in his elbow as a result of the hit, knocking him out of the lineup for three games. Referee Dan Marouelli did not call a penalty, which drew the ire of many Canucks, but the league ruled that Marouelli was correct in his judgment; it was ruled a legal hit bearing no punishment. Canucks head coach Marc Crawford publicly criticized the non-call, claiming that Marouelli and his partner, Rob Martell, needed to show "respect" for the league's leading scorer. General manager Brian Burke, the league's former chief disciplinarian, called the play "a headhunting hit."[3] Some Canucks players supposedly issued a "bounty" on Moore's head."[4] During another Vancouver-Colorado game three weeks after the Naslund hit, on March 8, 2004, Moore fought Matt Cooke in the first period. Late in the third period, Bertuzzi began following Moore down the ice and tried to start a fight. When Moore ignored him, Bertuzzi grabbed hold of Moore's jersey, and punched Moore in the side of the head from behind. Bertuzzi then pushed him down headfirst into the ice.[5][6] After lying on the ice for several minutes, Moore was removed on a stretcher. Moore suffered three fractured vertebrae in his neck, a grade three concussion, vertebral ligament damage, stretching of the brachial plexus nerves, and facial cuts. Video made by: Sunny Johal

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Video Title: Todd Bertuzzi Suckerpunch on Steve Moore, The Story behind the Incident
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