Devils captain Nico Hischier involved in incident overseas that required police intervention

He was on the bank, and that is the entire story.

The New Jersey Devils captain was floating the Aare with friends on Saturday afternoon when a rubber boat carrying two adults and two children was dragged into the backwater below the Stauwehr Engehalde.

Kantonspolizei Bern confirmed to Berner Zeitung that the call came shortly after 3:50 p.m.

Police pulled the boat ashore with a throw bag, and all four people were unhurt.

A witness called the intervention heroic. Hischier told 20 Minuten only that everyone was grateful for support and glad nobody was harmed.

His manager told Berner Zeitung that Hischier's group had climbed out at the weir and planned to re-enter the river downstream.

That is the rule the Aare enforces on locals. You exit above the Stauwehr, you walk, you get back in below it.

The family did not exit, and the current did the rest.

Hischier was standing there to help because he had already obeyed the river rules.

Eight days before Saturday, Hischier signed a five-year, $58.5 million extension announced by general manager Sunny Mehta, beginning in 2027-28 and running through 2031-32.

He is the franchise, and the franchise had no idea where he was.

That is not a scandal, and it should not become one. Clubs cannot police July.

What protects a $58.5 million asset on the Aare is not a rule sheet.

It is knowing where the water turns, which is the one thing an NHL front office cannot buy for a European star it signed in New Jersey.

Hischier has described drifting that river as his perfect day off for years.

On Saturday it stayed one, because he knew where to get out.

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