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BLOWN OUT OF PROPORTION
everything about this incident is being blown out of porportion barkhouse had no right trying to stop the player from slamingthe door.that is not his job.truro has not let up on this one little bit.this is wed.and they are still going on about this.they must want this to make the tv screens.what about he trainor leaving the box to go after theamherst player.not to much is being said about him. sad .sad. sad. - Carol Lirette
What is sad, sad, sad here is the lack of respect for an older person. Let’s remember we are talking about a physically fit 19 year-old hockey player and a 70 year-old man. In my teen-age years we would not ever have thought about touching an elder and if we did the league would not have had to do something our parents would have looked after it. I am saddened each time I hold the door for a senior and see a young 20 or 30 something or even a child barge through practically knocking the senior over. Some of us as parents messed up in not teaching our children respect for others. - Bob
WHAT HAS HOCKEY COME TO?
Six hockey players and two coaches were suspended following a brawl between two teams of eight-year-olds in Guelph. Ontario last week.
Three players each from the two Novice AAA teams, and their respective coaches, were ejected from the Tournament after a brawl during a game at Exhibition Arena.
Guelph Police are reviewing videotape of the incident and criminal charges may be laid.
A small fight had broken out between players on the ice, he said, and both coaches sent more players from the bench to join in the fracas.
A member of the coaching staff of one team approached the other team’s bench and allegedly spit in the face of a coach.
These are eight-year-olds. How ridiculous is that?
It’s not a good example, one official is reported to have said. How understated is that?
- excerpts of story from news.guelphmercury.com with additional comment by hockeyscene.com
SELECTION OF UNDER 17 TEAM
In looking at the U17 selections, there are only 2 kids from the NB-PEI Midget Major League and they are both from PEI where arguably it was difficult to justify more than 1 selection but they had to take 3. This past weekend at the Monctonian Tournament, 5 of the 6 NBPEIMML made the cross-overs, the only team that didn’t was in first place and the team that won was in third. The majority of the picks were as expected but the dismissal of players from NB-PEI, most notably, Andrew Langan, a terrific player who was superior at the U17 camp, is hard to justify. While I wish them well, it is hard to conceive that they will be able to compete, especially with the holes on defence and the over-abundance of Halifax selections. I watched the Tournament with everyone else and while all is done for the U17 what were these guys thinking? Staying home to play in what appears to be a terrific developmental league is still not enough for these experts who think that the minute a kid leaves town or gets drafted regardless of how much they play makes them automatically better.
- Tim M. New Berunswick
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008