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====Assault conviction====
In a game between the Bruins and the [[Vancouver Canucks]] in [[Vancouver]] on February 21, 2000, McSorley swung his stick and hit [[Donald Brashear]] in the head with 4.6 seconds left in the game. Brashear fell backwards and hit his head hard on the ice, losing consciousness and suffering a Grade III [[concussion]]. McSorley was charged with assault and suspended by the NHL for the remainder of the 1999–2000 season (including the playoffs), missing 23 games. On October 6, 2000, Judge William Kitchen of the [[Provincial Court of British Columbia]] found him guilty of [[aggravated assault|assault with a weapon]] for his attack on Brashear.
After his assault conviction, his NHL suspension was extended to one full year through February 21, 2001.<ref name='ABCNews-Nov-7-2000'>{{cite news|title=McSorley Suspended From NHL Until Feb.|date=2000-11-07|work=ABC News|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=100192&page=1#.T81KPMWuXh4|access-date=June 4, 2012}}</ref> It was the longest suspension for an on-ice incident in modern NHL history.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/08/sports/nhl-roundup-mcsorley-s-suspension-extended-to-one-year.html|title=N.H.L. ROUNDUP; McSorley's Suspension Extended to One Year|access-date=2010-08-22|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2000-11-08}}<!--(Archived by WebCite at https://www.webcitation.org/5sImcm56D)--></ref> McSorley's contract expired during the suspension, and he would never play in another NHL game.
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