It's one thing for a 15-year-old kid keeping his head up for opposing players who want a piece of him, but when it's his own coach laying the lumber, it's time to get the law involved.
That's what happened, if published allegations are correct, in a bizarre incident on Jan. 12 in Toronto.
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Ugly. Despicable. Disgusting. Heinous.
Take your pick.
Those are just a few of the words to describe the scene at a minor-hockey game in Winchester, Ont., Monday evening.
The Ontario Minor Hockey Association has come down hard on one of the coaches involved in last month's bench-clearing brawl between two AAA novice hockey teams.
Niagara Falls Thunder assistant coach Randy Brant has been suspended three years for his involvement in the brawl between two teams of eight-year-olds, which happened during a minor hockey tournament in Guelph, Ontario.
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The fact that criminal charges were not laid in the wake of the much-publicized brawl between two teams of eight-year-olds at a tournament in Guelph, Ontario, does not mean there shouldn't be indictments. Not criminal indictments, but those of the moral and ethical category.
First things first.
For once, I see eye to eye with my colleague Dave Pollard. There is absolutely no excuse for that disgusting brawl involving eight-year-olds at a tournament in Guelph, Ont., this past weekend.
