High School Hockey fight...

[Rich52]

Yes, both goalie (chipper gauss) and defenseman (kyle Pearson) got 3 game suspensions...your right...how did you know that one 


In my defense I didn't play last year I was a just a fan, this is my first year back playing hockey in over 5 years...
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Goalie came to his Pals defense, who was getting 2 on 1'ed, and they suspend him? Bad form! I'd say give him an award. AND he beat the snot out of the knucklehead to boot.

Great game hockey. I'd rather see skating then fighting but understand why fights happen.

[Dichotomy]

Do your worst!   

DONE!!!! 

You can share it if you like

[JOACH1M]

[klingan]

I thought i would be fake?

[Dichotomy]

 

you're insane.. that's what I like about ya 

[JOACH1M]

you're insane.. that's what I like about ya 

I love a good joke! 

[Dace]

When i was in football in 7th grade, a Giant fight erupted at our highschool football game, The opposing team(batavia) were losing badly and weren't happy about it. Tensions were pretty high and some of the batavia gang thought they would jump a hometown person BEHIND the hometown bleachers. When they did, the entire hometown bleachers started jumping down and swarming the batavia group. I still remember how ppl were jumping off the top of the bleachers to get into the fight.  I would of been in it too, If one of our 8th grade players hadn't grabbed me into the concession stand.


My Freshmen year, a Fight erupted on-field during a scrimmage. we were on punt return, When this #7 of the other team just runs up, grabs one of our players by the facemask, And starts punching him threw it. Our team pounced on that guy, which lead to the other team jumping on us, which lead to the bench erupting.  I punched someone in the throat but got my fingers stepped on by some pretty hard cleats.


In the end, The kid who had started it all was forced to send an apology letter. That must have been to much tho, Because out of every word he wrote (2 paragraphs) not a single one was spelled correctly. we could barely make out anything he said.

Where is "hometown"? Sounds fairly close to me. Buncha guys I work with live in Batavia/Amelia/Milford areas.

[Slash27]

Yes, both goalie (chipper gauss) and defenseman (kyle Pearson) got 3 game suspensions...your right...how did you know that one 


In my defense I didn't play last year I was a just a fan, this is my first year back playing hockey in over 5 years...
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You need some glasses.

[JOACH1M]

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You need some glasses.

The hanson brothers !!!! 

[Bodhi]

The refs let that game get out of control and could have prevented the fights.  As for fighting at the high school level (3 years varsity), if we fought (anyone dropped a glove on either team) after a goal, the suspensions were very severe.  We occasionally had minor scraps, but most of all, our seasons were short enough 24 games that we worked out so hard to play we did not want to miss out owing to suspensions.  Mind you, I went on to play after high school where things were a whole lot different and we did not have face masks...  Makes me shake my head almost twenty years later....

[Jayhawk]

The refs let that game get out of control and could have prevented the fights.  As for fighting at the high school level (3 years varsity), if we fought (anyone dropped a glove on either team) after a goal, the suspensions were very severe.  We occasionally had minor scraps, but most of all, our seasons were short enough 24 games that we worked out so hard to play we did not want to miss out owing to suspensions.  Mind you, I went on to play after high school where things were a whole lot different and we did not have face masks...  Makes me shake my head almost twenty years later....

I don't see how the refs could have prevented a fight.  I may understand someone saying the refs didn't intervene enough.  I don't play or watch hockey, but I really can't blame anyone for not intervening with a bunch of amped up dumb high school kids in pads.  It's sort of their job I suppose, but in my naive view, the refs handled that situation about as good as they could.

[Penguin]

Of course, no one should have to pry apart two hockey players who are whaling on each other.  However, the point of the ref is to prevent it from getting to that point in the first place.

-Penguin

[MiloMorai]

Of course, no one should have to pry apart two hockey players who are whaling on each other.  However, the point of the ref is to prevent it from getting to that point in the first place.

-Penguin

So right. How many cheap shots and no calls happened earlier in the game?

[Bodhi]

I don't see how the refs could have prevented a fight.  I may understand someone saying the refs didn't intervene enough.  I don't play or watch hockey, but I really can't blame anyone for not intervening with a bunch of amped up dumb high school kids in pads.  It's sort of their job I suppose, but in my naive view, the refs handled that situation about as good as they could.

The refs job besides calling the game is to monitor stuff like the antics that led up to that fight after the game.  As soon as the teams started getting chippy with one another, the refs should have warned both benches in advance of game misconducts if it gets out of control.

As you said, you don't watch and haven't played.  While not easy, a good ref team can control a game and keep it from getting out of control.

As for the ignorant comment about "dumb kids in pads", I know that a majority of my high school team went on to Ivy League schools, some playing hockey and some just for the education.  You might want to realize that the vast majority of hockey players are fairly intelligent as hockey players who are generally excel in the game.

[Stoney]

Of course, no one should have to pry apart two hockey players who are whaling on each other.  However, the point of the ref is to prevent it from getting to that point in the first place.

-Penguin

Why not?  It gets done in every other sport.  Bottom line is these guys watch it on TV and figure its just a part of the game.  At the youth level, I don't think so...