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Teen Hockey Teams Brawl at End of TX State Championship
- Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:05am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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It’s something usually reserved for the professional ranks (which seems slightly paradoxical). But over the weekend two Texas high-school hockey teams did their best NHL impersonations when they broke out into an all-out brawl on the ice.
During the final seconds of the game between Keller High School (in the white) and Arlington Martin, the teams came to blows, resulting in at least one Grad 3 concussion. Security personnel reportedly had to come on to the ice to intervene.
Part of the incident was captured on video below:
School Hockey Championship Ends with Brawl: MyFoxDFW.com
In case you’re wondering, Keller won 9-3. But in the end, it seems both teams lost. No word yet on any disciplinary action.
(H/T: HuffP0)
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Comments (78)
USNseabee
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:49amWell guys, this has no place in any sport, USA hockey strictly enforces no fighting in youth hockey. Ive played, coached and reffed all my life. It is a very emotional sport and at high speed and rough. Tempers can get high, but coaches need to keep their players under control. The Minnesota high school hockey tournament just recently finished, no fights throughout the tournament. These kids play in front of 17,000 fans and played at a high level. It Is the greatest game on the planet, IMO
Report Post »JWN
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 1:37pmI’ve refereed youth hockey at all levels on the pacific coast for 10 years and never seen a fight this bad. The elbow to the jaw is a clear intent to injure penalty and that kid will be lucky if he ever gets to play organized hockey again. This fight is news because it is unusual in youth hockey, not because it represents the norm.
Report Post »ldpeters
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:22amWent to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out……………………..
Report Post »hammer13
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:19amWhat do you expect. Hockey- The sport of Bullies and Punks!
Report Post »effvar
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 12:22pmAnd you know this to be true because…..????
Report Post »Demloather
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:35amThese are just the punks that couldn’t make their varsity football teams. Pathetic.
Report Post »effvar
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:19amThats because they wanted to play a REAL sport…Face it, football like basketball and poker are not real sports….just a bunch of overgrown and sometimes fat glory hounds…..and poker…they’re just idiots!
Report Post »LINE
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:53amIt’s just a fight. Relax clowns. The world isn’t going to end because some kid chasing a piece of rubber got mad at each other and a little scrap ensued.
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:04amI say make that team not able to play for 5 years. Screw them and the coaches that make lite of it.
Report Post »dorightfearnothing
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:34pmWhy don’t we just get obama to sign an executive order banning the sport altogether? Have you lost your mind?!
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:01amjust a sweet group of boys showing their asses to everyone.
Report Post »GetRealMan
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:41amIn the NFL, if you fought like this, you’d be thrown out; maybe suspended or fined. Same for the NBA or MLB. I don’t get the fighting in hockey, at any level. I’ve been to maybe two NHL games in my life, and I’ve seen even little kids cheering on the fighting. What’s that teaching them? And don’t tell me “it’s just part of the game”. Apply that logic to any other sport – or life, for that matter. Can you imagine Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson dropping the putters on the 18th green and going after each other? Sounds kinda stupid, doesn’t it?
Report Post »RavenGlenn
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:32pmThat‘s because you don’t get it. Fighting in hockey IS a part of the sport. That’s like being confused when boxers fight. It’s part of the sport itself.
What most people don’t understand is that in hockey you have an unwritten code. Blindsiding someone is forbidden. Surprise attacks are no-no’s. The players that do that stuff get massive fines and suspensions. The proper ettiquette is for you to talk to the other player, have both of you agree to the fight, then both drop your sticks and gloves and square off.
Nobody else intervenes in the fight, nobody hits someone when they are down, etc. When someone breaks the proper way things are supposed to work is when things get ugly. It’s no different than someone hitting below the belt in boxing/mma, or biting someone’s ear off at that point. THAT is the part that isn’t a piece of the sport itself.
Report Post »dakotachuck
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:24pmIf Phil took out Tiger with a high elbow as he stood over a putt he just might come up swinging.
Report Post »ProudInfidel
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:47pmIn Hockey two guys can Sq off, fight and the momentum of the game can change. In Baseball it is impossible for two guys to tangle without two benches full of guys coming running out to fight. As Beck says “do your research”. Since 1990 there have FAR fewer bench clearing brawls in the NHL hockey than in MLB baseball. BUT YET all the bad-mouthing goes to hockey.
Report Post »PatA
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:38amI support fighting in Hockey but not at this level. Leave the fighting to the pro’s.
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:33amIts time for a moritorium on ALL HOCKEY!!! till we figure out what went wrong and make laws to prevent it from happening again.
Report Post »USNseabee
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:52amMore Laws?????, how about personal responsibility.
Report Post »dorightfearnothing
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:20pmSurely your kidding… I hope so.
Report Post »Bronco5
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:24amI graduated from L.D. Bell High School in 1986. This was the second or third year of Martin High Schools existence. We played these thugs in football and our game ended with a brawl also. Glad to see nothing has changed at this joke of a high school in 25 years. No matter the sport. Our brawl started from a cheap hit on our quarteback much like the one shown in this clip on the Keller player, and we took care of business just like the Keller team did with these punks. Ah the memories…………
Report Post »MaggieRose
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:16amI wish we would stop giving these kids all this air time for bad/ruthless/thug behaviour. Knowing teenagers, a lot of them will do just about anything for attention… “Hey did you see me on youtube? I broke that guys jaw! Hey did you see me, I slammed that kid to the ground! Hey did you see me? I was naked…” ad nauseum… We are raising a generation of ‘anything goes’ just to get on TV and that is twisted in my opinion. It hurts real people and can haunt these kids for the rest of their lives.
Report Post »shadowrider
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:11amI guess that’s what is called watch what you do in life as you might get the same treatment back.
The kid who ended up with the broken jaw reaped what he sowed when he blind-sided the other player into the boards.
Report Post »HerrBeck
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:09amTexans playing hockey?
Report Post »It is all part of Obama’s plot to turn America into a Socialist state.
First they export hockey from Socialist Canada.
In Canada there is socialized medicine.
You can get hurt in hockey, so you need medical care.
In Canada there is socialized medicine., so the players want that.
(I think it might even be in the hockey indoctrination manuals.)
So socialized medicine is introduced to take care of player injuries.
I’m not saying that hockey leads to socialized medicine, but no one is saying it doesn’t.
Texas kids need to be roping steers or something, not skating on Socialist ice.
It’s a slippery slope.
UlyssesP
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:29amObama is a dismal failure and disappointment to all the closet racists that because they felt guilty about their innermost racist thoughts, voted for him. His hockey deception that you describe will be a failure as well. He can’t even plot right. What a dumb ass.
Report Post »Oh wait, this was about hockey….puck off!
kickagrandma
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:01amNo State Championship should be awarded this year, and both teams and those programs in their schools should be suspended indefinitely.
Report Post »jubie.gonx
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 3:46amA bunch of seniors were suspended for 99 games. Big deal! The newscaster said the suspensions will follow them into college hockey. This isn’t true. High school rules have no juristiction over NCAA rules. Besides, any kid playing high school hockey in Texas isn’t headed for college hockey.
Report Post »Lion420
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:46amI‘m checking this out thinking I’m going to see a hockey fight…what I got was entirely different. Whoever taught #3 how to hit dirty like that ought to be beaten up himself. That was so wrong! The NHL is actually striving to end dirty head shots like that. In a REAL hockey game, #3 would have gotten the snot beaten out of him for trying to hurt someone, and suspended for at least a few games. Sickening…
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:13amGuess you missed the previous 3 seconds. If he wouldnt have just done THE SAME EXACT THING I would see your point. The phrase “what goes around” comes to my mind.
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:23amI would have learned an important life lesson if my jaw was broke for laying down a dirty hit. You must be one of the parents whos kids dont understand actions have consequences.
Report Post »neversaynever
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:51amWrong! I dont care if the kid died, nothing that goes on during an athletic event should ever end up in a courtroom. If that happens then every little thing done in a football, hockey, basketball etc game would end up in litigation. They shouldn’t even be suspended by the school. They should lose the right to play hockey anymore, and thats it.
Report Post »dorightfearnothing
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 12:50pm#1 unwritten rule in Hockey, never touch the goalie in an aggressive manner, you will be punished by his teammates, period. #2 , if you dish out a cheap shot like Mr. broken jaw did first, you are going to be punished, Mr. broken jaw did a high speed take out against the boards (a much more dangerous hit) blindsiding a player that was standing there watching the idiots duking it out. It sucks I know when when your schooled by your own tactics, but Mr. broken jaw got what he served and now needs to heal up and get back on the ice, it will make him a better player son long as he learned from it.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:46amThe kid who broke the others jaw needs some jail time to rethink his life. All thought on his part clearly went out the window.
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:02amYou did realize the kid who got the broken jaw cheapshotted someone 3 seconds before right?
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:25amI guess the broken jaw was “jail time” for the original cheapshot. How can people be so blind?
Report Post »dorightfearnothing
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:28pmJail time??? Come on, keep it real….
Report Post »Tifn8r
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:44am“Hit ‘im again!” Oh, sorry- got into the game a bit there.
Report Post »GoalieMom30
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:27amFighting at this age in hockey is appauling. Especially if its a high school game. Clearly the coaches had no control over their players and the refs lost control of the game as well. Any coach who encourages this kind of behavior should be benched themselves. If you can’t coach finess hockey then get out of coaching hockey. Hockey is a contact sport. However, it’s NOT boxing on ice.
Report Post »I have seen parents even at the 9-10 year age encouraging their kids to play dirty. It’s disgusting.
The Coaches have control over how their players behave. It comes from the top. I have witnessed similar events in soccer and baseball. Until the parents get control over themselves, then this will continue to happen. Hopefully the kid with the concussion will be okay.
teddrunk
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:49amThe legend I heard was hockey is from the word Hoc-Key. Possibly an old Sauk Indian word meaning: “Meet on Lake Winnebago in January for ice fishing with curved sticks and a fist fight on ice, with the Winnebago tribe.” Later the ice fishing was dropped but they had invented skates and wore them for the fight. Much later a game broke out but it wasn’t popular until they changed the puck from a 5 foot long sturgeon, to a 12″ walleye. I could be mistaken on a few points.
Report Post »canuck44
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:38amInteresting…not like hockey of old, but getting more like baseball. Previously it seldom involved more than two players and usually resulted from either an old grudge or some action away from the referee…butt ending, spearing the back of the knee or slashing across the top of the foot. World’s finest was Gordie Hall who used a stick the thickness of a two by four and was super strong…he could execute all of the above with one hand and a shrug of the shoulder. Very few challenged him after he wiped the ice with one “team policeman” Lou Fontenado and took out Rocket Richard with a single punch as a rookie. (no surprise there).
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:13amHold on there. Back in the day they did not use any protective gear. A 100mph puck in the face was more brutal than any fight today. There was a lot more blood on the ice back then.
Report Post »dakotachuck
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:16pmOh Zorro the advent of the curved stick in the late 60′s brought the puck up to face level more often and the use of protective gear soon followed. Goaltender Gump Worsley was one of the last to put on a mask, a quotable sort he said his face was his mask.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:33am.
Report Post »And the problem is?????? Can you say “Political Correctness?”
Zorro6821
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:09amWhat’s the big deal Glen!! Hockey is rough and raw and that applies to females too. There should be no double standard. I love Hockey, no political correctness in this sport. Hockey players make great Marines..
Report Post »dorightfearnothing
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:22pmThere is always a better and tougher hockey player. Hockey players make football player look like baseball players.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:24amThat’s why people GO to hockey games. Getting ready for the big leagues. Ever see the movie, Slap Shot? Hilarious!
Report Post »SirBeavis
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:39amAhh yes, Hockey…or as the Hansen brothers said in Slap Shot: Old School Hockey. Personally fights are part of the sport, and to an extent I love it as part of the sport. It is a ruff sport for ruff people, As Gordie Howe once said, “All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.”
How much fighting is acceptable at the high school level, even within the rules of the game? I’ll admit it probably should be considerably less than in the pro world.
Report Post »REDwhiteBLUEcommrade
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:42amI don’t have any kids myself, but from what I hear from some of the guys I used to play with they actually pick kids, at the younger levels before the games to fight. Its kinda like practice, but in a game time situation.
Report Post »Grasshopper42
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:35amI went to a fight the other day and a hockey game broke out . . .
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:58amJust practicing to become good union thugs.
Report Post »ProRef
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 6:33amNothing to see here, move along…
Report Post »Guerrino_P
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:52amOnly thing I saw were poor referees.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:52amHockey does not belong in Texas anyway. We are a football state. Keep hockey up there with the people with the frozen brains. Oh yea…Take soccer with you too. It sucks even worse.
Report Post »darkknight91
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:31amYou’re right about one thing: Soccer does suck. But the correct phrasing should be Texas doesn’t DESERVE hockey. You can have your football. NCAA? NFL? Both lame. Modano is finally playing for a real team.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:13amOld time Hockey?
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:28amMaybe the other player got his order wrong, so he just needed to vent some frustration? Wonder if any of them took off their skate and tried to stab someone with it?
Report Post »Balrog28
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:43amEddie Shore? Ogie Oglethorpe?
Report Post »ME
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:17amHockey is for real men, Romo would not last two mins on the ice. Hockey / UFC and a very few others are all real men have left but am sure that they will sissy them up with PC before long too. My sons have a one rule when they fight The other MALE better be BIGGER.
Report Post »Uncle Crusty
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 3:40pmBloody, bloody Sunday! Hockey to sport of peace, LOL!!!!
Report Post »obamanation
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 12:20pmOne of the many reasons why hockey is my favorite sport to play!!
@DUSTYLUV What a wuss statement!
Report Post »Longshot35
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:49amAnyone else notice the idiot kid give himself a concussion?? He tried to load up and blind side someone. Instead he face planted on the ice and didn’t get back up. He deserved it for a stupid punk move like that. He could have hurt that kid far worse then he hurt himself.
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