Hours after winning the World Junior Hockey title in Buffalo, members of Team Russia were kicked off a flight this morning for being either drunk or unruly.

WGRZ quotes police as saying the 30 team members were thrown off a Delta flight scheduled to leave Buffalo-Niagara International Airport because members of the team were intoxicated.

The Buffalo News quotes a Delta spokesperson as saying 30 people were not allowed to board because of "unruly behavior." The News also quotes unidentified airport sources as saying "it appeared the tournament champions were still celebrating" when the incident occurred.

The team and their equipment were then removed from the aircraft and the players were shuttled to a nearby hotel "to sober up," WGRZ says in its video report.

WGRZ says one option is to charter a bus to take the team to New York's JFK airport to catch their flight home to Moscow.

The Russian team won the hockey crown in a 5-3 comeback victory Wednesday night over Canada.

They had been scheduled to fly to New York's JFK airport via Atlanta for the trip home to Moscow.

(Posted by Doug Stanglin)