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Article: SIOUX SKATER MUST APOLOGIZE FOR SLASHING BUCKY BADGER.(SPORTS)
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- The Capital Times
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- November 13, 2007
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Byline: Todd Milewski
Bucky Badger took a tap on the shins from a North Dakota hockey player on Saturday - and now the University of Wisconsin mascot will receive an apology.
WCHA commissioner Bruce McLeod said Sioux defenseman Joe Finley was captured on videotape slashing Bucky Badger - played by UW student David Blanchard - before Saturday's game, which North Dakota won 3-1.
Finley must write a letter of apology to Blanchard, McLeod said.
The commissioner made no ruling on a separate incident in which Blanchard and Sioux goaltender Jean-Phillippe Lamoureux bumped into ...