More Post Game Hockey Violence in Vancouver

He should be charged. He should not be able to coach again. Ever. Whatever that kid did, you have to be able to rise above that.

That is totally unacceptable by a coach for kids. He should be fired and banned.

A couple of days in the stocks in the public square would quickly send the needed message.

mike

My first impression when hearing that this loser would be charged with assault was disgust. His minor hockey association should ban him for life.
Of course the kicker in this scenario is the possible broken wrist which I doubt happened.

My take is that the taxpayer should not be funding an assault charge unless the player's family wanted a charge laid. It appeared to me that they were not consulted.

"My first impression when hearing that this loser would be charged with assault was disgust. His minor hockey association should ban him for life.
Of course the kicker in this scenario is the possible broken wrist which I doubt happened."

Soooooooooo,ct. Just what would you reccomend? That he be elevated to head coach of the junior hockey league?A statute? So when did you stop tripping young kids for kicks?
As Mike suggested,public stocks,but until the kid gets his cast off. I wouldn't normally think of this for my worse enemy,but then sic the jackboots of child services on him.

The old fashioned word "Cad" comes to mind.

Just sad
that is all I have.
Pathetic.

Hockey has become a sport of losers and idiots that is played for losers and idiots. The parents are losers, the coaches are losers, the fans are losers, the team owners are losers, and most of the players are losers.

Not sure how it happened, but that is the present reality.

It's too bad because it was once a great game.

Unbelievable!
But hey, In this day & age what do you expect?
No morality, no self control. A bully who is an adult. This is what comes when people try to get rid of God. Peoples minds become corrupt.

"A couple of days in the stocks in the public square would quickly send the needed message."

Are you thinking of the confinement, or all the rotten fruit that would be thrown at him? :-)

TJ at June 30, 2012 12:26 PM - Generalize much? I don't play hockey but I wouldn't define everyone involved in the sport as "losers".

Back to the subject at hand, the coach was marching purposefully across the ice with malice aforethought. This was not a spur of the moment thing, it was a considered and dangerous act. No need for the police to mull this over, nail the bastard.

My son played rep hockey for over 10 years and I never saw anything like that. One thing I can tell you is that that coach would never have made it out of the arena without a police escort.

That looks like criminal behavior to me.

Dollars to donuts this guy is a Liberal Progressive.

It always makes me wonder what kind of guy can stand to be around immature blathering kids all the time. It's great in one way that a few mature males want to set an example for young people, but to do so would take a special kind of patience that most could never stomach.

On the other hand this guy has proven the opposite. In fact he's shown that he views a 13 year old boy as an equal competitor, which is not unlike a paedophile who doesn’t distinguish the difference between himself and a child.

Scary really, there probably is a correlation. His uncontrolled anger is symptomatic of Liberal emotional outbursts with cowardly violence to the defenceless.

I love this part from the article: "Hockey Canada’s vice president of hockey development, Paul Carson, called the behaviour “unacceptable,” but stressed these cases are rare."

Yeah, but they aren't rare at all though are they? Its just that usually they're smarter than to pull this cr@p out where everybody can see them. Team sport generally is utterly -infested- with this type of thing, from pee-wee four year olds all the way up to the Olympics and the pros.
Because back somewhere around 1936 winning at sport became politically important. There's money in it, prestige in it, and sometimes politicians rise or fall on the strength of it.

In that environment this coach's behavior becomes not only predictable but perfectly reasonable. He's got a whole lot of prestige tied up here, and he's reacting aggressively to some kid who's threatening it. Duh. That's how humans are.

If the game was about skill, fair play and kids having some fun shooting the puck around, he wouldn't be reacting that way. But then if it was just for fun they wouldn't be playing in the summer in a $20 megabuck arena and that guy wouldn't be a coach. He'd be doing something else to boost his social position.

As well, that was clearly and obviously common assault against a minor child and he should definitely be charged for it. Additionally the kid's dad should be given five minutes alone with the son of a beeotch.

Revnant Dream - You will be called a religious ecstatic and an extremist who is trying to force your beliefs on others, but I agree 100% and have been called similar epithets for doing so. Not very Christian thing to say but, they can all go to Hell!

ct "My take is that the taxpayer should not be funding an assault charge unless the player's family wanted a charge laid"

What are you talking about? He committed a crime against society and society should make him pay. The victim is irrelevant although after any conviction it wouldn't hurt to hire a scumbag lawyer and go on a fishing expedition for some cash. He essentially beat up a little kid for reasons of malice - I like the sound of 6 months.

ct "My take is that the taxpayer should not be funding an assault charge unless the player's family wanted a charge laid"

What are you talking about? He committed a crime against society and society should make him pay. The victim is irrelevant although after any conviction it wouldn't hurt to hire a scumbag lawyer and go on a fishing expedition for some cash. He essentially beat up a little kid for reasons of malice - I like the sound of 6 months.

Knight 99 and Phantom - yeah. I mean, It's almost like a self-important sports organization might spend years covering up for a serial child-rapist because, you know, Go Team! Priorities and such.

All I know is, had that been my son? That coach would have had much more broken than just his wrist.

And had that incident happened in Texas? I would have had lots of help in showing that coach the error of his ways.

As it stands though, it appears this guy's life is going to be hell after I did a search for his name on the internet. It is literally viral, and there will be some crap coming his way as folks let him know he did something wrong.

Poor bastard.

My elder daughter's played rep soccer for years. She's had good and bad coaches, but not a single one would have ever considered something like this, let alone actually done it.

Maybe it's because there is no pro soccer for women, so the coaches don't get into it with dreams of sending a kid on to the NHL, or maybe getting moved up the coaching ladder themselves. They do it because they like the game, and they like the kids.

And I agree with Texas - if it had been my kid he'd tripped, broken wrist or not, there would have been more than words exchanged.

Well ya know that I am not a ninny nanny about most stuff....but it is important to ponder the likeyhood that the injury was likely a result of the kid behind falling upon the injured....

Bearing that in mind...consider this kid being tripped into an intimate environment of sharp skates....

It is not unreasonable to advance a statistical chance of a fatality.....

Ponder that!

I don't recall ever hearing that the criminal code is suspended at the doors of a hockey arena.

Charge the jerk.

"Hockey has become a sport of losers and idiots that is played for losers and idiots... most of the players are losers."

Gee, that'll be tough message to deliver to my 6-yr old, who just finished his first year of Timbits hockey, but if you think the message is that important, TJ,

I'LL DELIVER IT STRONGLY AND FROM THE GUT.

Brilliant.

I agree with the sentiment that the right punishment would be 5 minutes alone with the opposing team dads, and let it go. I'm not one for jumping and running to the police for every incident in life, especially when charges are "recommended" by the worthless and disreputable RCMP.

Did the player actually suffer a broken wrist? As much as I'll be stoned for this comment, if not, this has no place in the courts; I doubt that inflicting serious injury was on the idiot's mind.

As noted above: Lifetime coaching ban (any sport), and he will suffer the slings and arrows for this event for the rest of his life. Reputation ruined, terminal embarrassment and shame broadcast worldwide. What more are RCMP Keystone Cops going to do?

mhb23re

Do you guys remember the video of the kids on the bus totally ripping apart an old lady? And here, apparently there were a lot of words thrown child-to-adult. I wonder what would have happened to all the lippy kids in the not so distant past? What I mean is that the lack of respect kids show adults is, I believe, a direct result of the absolute lack of fear they have when dealing with adults.

Now, in this particular case considering it's part of a sporting activity there has to be some "dis-respectin'" expected. The coach was absolutely wrong and he should be charged. Still, I cheer a little inside because I think at least two kids just realized that adults can be a little scarier than their teachers told them.

What mhb said.

No cops.

Much ado 'bout SFA...

Well tj, all sports are fun when played cleanly and with enthusiasm. My kids play hockey, and have fun doing so. We've had some rough games, mostly because of young refs letting too much stuff go. However, I would say 90% of games are without incident.

I'm amazed that it does not happen more than it does. Kids as big as adults that are rude as hell.....well, somethings gotta give. Not saying it's ok, just saying that I'm surprised it's not a regular occurrence, like it was when I was a kid.

Clearly that's assault.

To a few who think I am some uncaring hillbilly. I was questioning the seriousness of the injury and leaving it to the parents as to whether they wanted charges laid against the coach. Whether the parents made that choice or not the said coach would be out of hockey. Anyone who has that poor control of their emotions should not be coaching children. My initial negative reaction was about professional interjectors who have little knowledge but lots of taxpayers money to spend in their exploration.

I was involved with all the teams my son played minor hockey with coaching to managing. The worst I saw on 'other' teams was verbal abuse by coaches. However that was not the most serious. I saw more examples of parents who had no control and were prepared to abuse their own children and opposing team's players as well. Towards the end of his minor hockey it became possible to ban these people from the rink which is the same punishment this coach should experience.

What Phantom and Brian M. said. What Revnant Dream and larben said. Simply unbelievable that this black-souled behavior occurs. If this had happened to me, that coach's blood would be on the ice, and his teeth down his throat.