| | NEW YORK -- Detroit Red Wings coach Scotty Bowman was fined
$1,000 by the NHL on Thursday for his role in an altercation with a
cameraman between periods of the Detroit-Tampa Bay game last
Sunday.
| |  | | | Lapointe |
| |  | | | Yzerman |
In a release, the NHL said that no disciplinary action would be
taken against two Detroit players also involved in incidents during
the game.
Bowman was walking down the tunnel to the team's dressing room
when he encountered a TV crew setting up for an interview. Bowman
said he pushed the cameraman out of the way so he could get into
his office. The cameraman said he was pushed but admitted he could
have been blocking the coach's path.
Steve Yzerman and Martin Lapointe denied abusing
a cameraman shooting behind the team's bench. According to reports,
Yzerman tried to grab a camera and Lapointe threatened and spit at
a cameraman.
"The truth is I would never spit on somebody. I would punch him
first," Lapointe said Tuesday.
Yzerman said the incident has been blown out of proportion.
"I touched his camera. I didn't push him at all. He basically
just ignored us," Yzerman said. "We asked the guy to move. It
happens pretty much every single game we play and every cameraman
just simply backs up a foot. He didn't want to do that."
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