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Montreal Canadiens players Ryan O'Bryne (left) and Thomas Kostopoulos (right) were arrested this morning.

Those happy fellows pictured above are Ryan O'Bryne and Thomas Kostopoulos, two players with the NHL's Montreal Canadiens who were arrested early this morning for – get this – stealing a purse.

This is what The Tampa Tribune is reporting:

This morning's incident involving the hockey players started when a woman inside Whiskey Park set her purse on a countertop, a Tampa police report states. She noticed it missing and alerted security officers, who saw O'Bryne outside holding the purse in one hand and the woman's cell phone in another.

O'Bryne told police it was his girlfriend's purse. When an officer "asked what her name was, he could not give a name," the report states.

Police determined the purse belonged to the woman at the bar, who told police she didn't know O'Bryne, according to the report. O'Bryne was detained and placed in the back seat of a police car.

"Several associates, who were identified as National Hockey League players/members, crowded around the officers and police car," the report states. "They were told numerous times to get away from the police car and not to interfere."

Hockey players are fun, aren't they? At any rate, O'Bryne has been charged with grand theft while Kostopoulos was charged with resisting an officer, though he did so without violence. (Held his breath maybe?)

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