Former NHLer Stephen Peat pleaded guilty to arson after starting a fire in March that nearly burned down his father's suburban Vancouver house, according to the Vancouver Province.
Peat, 35, pleaded guilty to arson by negligence Wednesday in provincial court in Surrey, B.C., after initially entering a not guilty plea to the charge of arson in relation to an inhabited property. He is facing up to five years in prison.
Peat, who played 130 games for the Washington Capitals (eight goals, two assists, 234 penalty minutes) from 2001-06 but retired in 2007, turned himself in to police on March 19, two days after a fire broke out at the Langley house his father, Walter, owned.