Rendezvous festivities matched with Olympic hockey fever exhibited in local watering holes kept Whitehorse RCMP busy last Friday through Monday morning, but most revellers kept their sticks on the ice and out of the penalty box, according to "M” Division Sgt. Don Rogers.

"It was busy, but not in a bad way, with not a lot of real serious, serious calls,” said Rogers. "(Calls) were up, which was to be expected ... but they weren't significant, criminal type of calls.”

Through the weekend, police "arrested and lodged” 42 people in cells and responded to 102 calls for service. They ranged from incidents of intoxicated people, noisy parties and suspicious persons or vehicles.

"There were the usual complaints of assaults and impaired drivers, but nothing out of the ordinary, except a robbery at the 98 Lounge, which was foiled by staff,” reads the RCMP's report issued this morning, declaring Rendezvous celebrations "uneventful” for police.

At approximately 10 a.m. Sunday, a man wielding a stick tried to make off with $5,000 from the 98 Hotel bar's office. He made it as far as the front door with the loot before being stopped by employees.

While staff managed to retrieve the cash, the would-be thief fled the scene on foot, but was arrested 30 minutes later after police stopped a vehicle on the Alaska Highway.

Inside the vehicle was a man matching the description of the suspect.

Sidney Smarch, 23, remains in custody until his next court appearance March 10. Smarch has been charged with robbery with an offensive weapon.

Meanwhile, the 22-year-old female driver was arrested and charged with impaired driving, one of three such charges meted out over the weekend.

Police also issued three 24-hour licence suspensions to impaired drivers.

In a separate incident originating at the 98 Hotel, an officer was assaulted outside the pub while making an arrest there on Saturday evening.

"It was an overly rambunctious patron who was intoxicated and unruly with bar staff,” is how Rogers described the scene in which RCMP assisted staff to remove a man from the Wood Street establishment.