Sports Frog

If you ever consider closing down a nightclub, make sure you don't invite the Montreal Canadiens.

With two days off in between games and a Tuesday night road contest against the Lightning on their schedule, the Habs were no doubt here in Tampa on Sunday to enjoy the 70 degrees, no cloud in the sky weather that was enjoyed here this weekend.

Also this weekend in Tampa, we're 'celebrating' the closing of a local night club that is known to be overrun night after night by douchebags and the women who love them.

So when you mix these two factors, you apparently get an end result of Ryan David O'Bryne, a 23 year old defenseman for the Habs who's played 11 games with Montreal so far this season, arrested shortly after 3am Sunday night / Monday morning on charges of grand theft after allegedly stealing a woman's purse and cellphone at the club.

"O'Bryne told police the items belonged to his girlfriend, but "he could not name whose purse it was" while detained outside the bar, according to an arrest report.

Police said the purse and cell phone were valued at $645. All but $20 was recovered, the report shows."

Apparently, there were a few Canadiens members at the club, and winger Tom Kostopoulus was also arrested on a misdemeanor charge of resisting an officer without violence after coming by to defend Bryne.

Ah, rest in peace, Whiskey Park South.