NHLer’s Dad Found Guilty of Planning to Kill His Wife and Girlfriend’s Husband

We all know plenty of people out there who are objectively bad at being married. One NHLer's dad also happens to suck at murder.

Brigitte Vey, mom to Vancouver Canucks forward Linden Vey, probably thought she was going to catch her husband hooking up with a Tinder rando when she hid an iPod recorder in her Saskatchewan farm house while she was at work in 2013. Turns out, her husband Curtis Vey and his girlfriend Angela Nicholson were actually plotting to murder her. Both their spouses, actually. After days of deliberation, a jury found both Vey and Nicholson each guilty on two counts of conspiring to kill Sunday. I can only imagine they were heatedly debating what CSI rerun inspired their half-assed plot. In buzzy recordings heard during the trial, Vey and Nicholson seem to be shuffling around a kitchen brainstorming ways to burn down the house with Vey's wife in it. "The bottom line is… it's set up to be an accident, right?" Vey said. "Do you know what I mean? Like, the house burns down." Nicholson offers a few ideas, but neither seem to anticipate their target could escape the blaze. "I thought if I could just pre-start the curtains, they're not going to be able to tell how it started," she said. Nicholson herself was in the process of getting a divorce, but still seemed game to put sleeping pills in her spouse's coffee, and then make him "disappear." "If I go in there, if I turn over, say the coffee table, and I open the cupboards, and I go upstairs and I'd pull the dresser drawers out and make it look like they're rummaging through for something. That's going to make them suspicious, is it not?" "Just make sure you got gloves on," Vey suggests. Good one, Dexter. Defence lawyers argued the two weren't serious about the murders. While in conversation with undercover police in a holding cell, Nicholson admitted she Googled how to set a grease fire, but was too "chicken" to follow through. Clearly the would-be killers' commitment issues extend beyond their relationships. The maximum penalty for murder conspiracy is life in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for September 2. Follow Sarah on Twitter.