B.C. regional junior hockey league hands out 35 games worth of suspensions for on-ice brawl | 24CA News
A serious B.C. regional junior hockey league has issued a slew of suspensions following a brawl between gamers on New Year’s Eve.
In its assertion Tuesday, the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL) mentioned it had handed out a complete of 35 video games in suspensions to gamers from the Nelson Leafs and eight video games to Beaver Valley Nitehawks gamers resulting from an on-ice brawl involving the 2 groups on Dec. 31.
The league mentioned it occurred through the opening faceoff of the second interval.
Four Leafs gamers, together with Tyler Seminoff, Leighton Partington, Hunter Sperle and Ryland Mennie, acquired the heftiest penalties amongst disciplined gamers.
They have every been suspended for eight video games, together with three for collaborating in a staged combat and 5 for instigating fights, in line with the league.
Another Leafs participant, Marko Pavlovic, has been suspended for 3 video games.
Four Nitehawks gamers, together with Gavin Tritt, Boris Hristov, Spencer Dixon-Reusz and Kaleb Percival, have every been suspended for 2 video games.
The league says the gamers are eligible to return later this month, but it surely determined to droop Leafs head coach Adam DiBella indefinitely, pending completion of its investigation on his actions through the recreation in query.
WATCH | Players combat following puck drop in KIJHL recreation on New Year’s Eve:
Nelson Leafs and Beaver Valley Nitehawks gamers are penalized for a multi-fight incident on Dec. 31.
Leafs coach below investigation
KIJHL communications director Emanuel Sequeira says in his time with the league he had not seen that many disciplinary actions imposed on groups at one time.
In referencing DiBella’s indefinite suspension, Taylor McKee, professor of sports activities administration at Brock University in Ontario, says it seemed to him just like the Leafs coach had directed gamers to provoke the combat.
“It certainly felt like they were permitted to do it,” he informed host Chris Walker on CBC’s Daybreak South.
McKee provides that he is stunned {that a} younger coach like DiBella, 29, would permit brawls to occur within the recreation, as hockey has turn into much less violent through the years.
24CA News requested KIJHL commissioner Jeff Dubois for remark, however Sequeira mentioned Dubois would concern a press release on the suspensions as soon as the investigation into DiBella is full.
