Former UND hockey player pleads guilty

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A former University of North Dakota hockey player has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and giving false information to a police officer.

Joe Finley was arrested in July after an officer spotted him and UND forward Matt Frattin throwing objects from a garage into a Grand Forks street. Police said Finley gave them a false name. He will be sentenced later.

Frattin, who would have been a junior, had another run-in with police in August and was kicked off the hockey team.

Finley, a native of Edina, Minn., graduated last spring and signed with the NHL's Washington Capitals, the team that drafted him in the first round in 2005. He is likely to start the season with Washington's American Hockey League affiliate, the Hershey Bears.