NEW YORK - A former minor league hockey player accused of selling prescription painkillers to an ex-hockey player who died of an accidental overdose pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanour drug charge.
Jordan Hart, 33, of Huntington, New York, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court to possessing oxycodone. He was arrested in September 2014, accused of selling illegally obtained prescription painkillers to former hockey player Derek Boogaard. Boogaard, who played for the New York Rangers and Minnesota Wild, died in 2011.
There was no mention of Boogaard when Hart admitted obtaining prescription painkillers illegally in late 2010 and early 2011.