Question: The Todd Bertuzzi–Steve Moore incident, was a highly controversial event in ice hockey, that happened during a National Hockey League (NHL) game between the Vancouver Canucks and the Colorado Avalanche on March 8, 2004, in the first period, which Canadian former professional ice hockey center who played in parts of three National Hockey League (NHL) seasons with the Colorado Avalanche, fought Vancouver player Matt Cooke and served a 5-minute major penalty for fighting?

The Todd Bertuzzi–Steve Moore incident (also called the Steve Moore incident, the Todd Bertuzzi incident, and the Bertuzzi–Moore incident) was a highly controversial event in ice hockey that happened during a National Hockey League (NHL) game between the Vancouver Canucks and the Colorado Avalanche on March 8, 2004.  The Avalanche would go on to build up a large lead in a fight-filled game.  In the first period, Steve Moore fought Vancouver player Matt Cooke and served a 5-minute major penalty for fighting.  Late in the third period, Todd Bertuzzi was sent onto the ice.  After failing to instigate Moore to fight, Bertuzzi skated after Moore, grabbed his jersey and punched him in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious.  Bertuzzi landed on top of him, driving Moore face first into the ice followed by Moore's teammate Andrei Nikolishin and Bertuzzi's teammate Sean Pronger.  Moore was knocked out and lay motionless for ten minutes before being carried off on a stretcher.  The combination of the hit, fall, and piling-on had resulted in three fractured neck vertebrae, facial cuts and a concussion.  The incident ended Moore's professional hockey career, and resulted in criminal assault charges against Bertuzzi, and a civil lawsuit against Bertuzzi and the Canucks.  On August 19, 2014, it was reported the civil trial ended with all parties agreeing to a confidential settlement. <SEP> Mário Bližňák (born 6 March 1987) is a Slovak professional ice hockey center who currently plays with HC Bílí Tygři Liberec of the Czech Extraliga.  He previously played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL).  After playing in the Slovak Extraliga, Bližňák was selected by the Canucks in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, and moved to North America, joining the Vancouver Giants of the major junior Western Hockey League (WHL) in 2005.  Bližňák played three seasons with the Giants, helping them win the Memorial Cup, the national championship for major junior hockey in Canada, in 2007, before joining the Moose in 2008.  He is best known as a defensive forward. <SEP> Victor J. Oreskovich (born August 15, 1986) is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger of Croatian ancestry who is currently an Unrestricted Free Agent.  Selected 55th overall in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft by the Colorado Avalanche, he played for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) and Kitchener Rangers of the major junior Ontario Hockey League (OHL) before deciding to turn professional.  After signing a contract with the Avalanche in 2007, he was assigned to the team's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, but chose not to report and spent two years away from hockey.  In 2009, he signed with the Florida Panthers and spent the subsequent season between the NHL and the team's AHL affiliate, the Rochester Americans.  The following off-season, he was traded to the Canucks.  Oreskovich joined the team in 2011 on their run to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they lost to the Boston Bruins.  In October 2011, he was waived by the Canucks and assigned to the Wolves. <SEP> Steven Francis Moore (born September 22, 1978) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey center who played in parts of three National Hockey League (NHL) seasons with the Colorado Avalanche.