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A players’ night out has handed Niagara IceDogs another black eye.
Two days before the team played the franchise’s first playoff game since 2019, a group of players, many wearing team jackets, took advantage of “Reel Deal Tuesday” at Landmark Cinemas in St. Catharines but ran amok during the movie “Black Bag.”
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A local resident who attended the movie said players “displayed absolutely egregious behaviour, including technically assaulting an elderly woman.”
“From the moment they entered the theatre, they were yelling and throwing food across the room,” Mike Gerow wrote in an email to The Standard and the team. “This behaviour continued until they hit me in the back with some sort of candy while attempting to throw it at the team member in front of me.
“Shortly after, they nailed an elderly woman in her 70s on the side of her face with food.”
Gerow said her husband immediately jumped up and confronted the players, who responded by “mouthing off to him and mocking his Asian accent.”
When a manager entered the theatre, the audience shouted for the players to be removed, he said.
“At that point, we left, as the movie was completely ruined,” Gerow said. “No one in the theatre could focus on the film due to the chaos and intentional disruption.”
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A players’ night out has handed Niagara IceDogs another black eye.
Two days before the team played the franchise’s first playoff game since 2019, a group of players, many wearing team jackets, took advantage of “Reel Deal Tuesday” at Landmark Cinemas in St. Catharines but ran amok during the movie “Black Bag.”
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A local resident who attended the movie said players “displayed absolutely egregious behaviour, including technically assaulting an elderly woman.”
“From the moment they entered the theatre, they were yelling and throwing food across the room,” Mike Gerow wrote in an email to The Standard and the team. “This behaviour continued until they hit me in the back with some sort of candy while attempting to throw it at the team member in front of me.
“Shortly after, they nailed an elderly woman in her 70s on the side of her face with food.”
Gerow said her husband immediately jumped up and confronted the players, who responded by “mouthing off to him and mocking his Asian accent.”
When a manager entered the theatre, the audience shouted for the players to be removed, he said.
“At that point, we left, as the movie was completely ruined,” Gerow said. “No one in the theatre could focus on the film due to the chaos and intentional disruption.”
IceDogs benched for players’ bad behaviour at movie theatre
Players benched for one period of the first-round playoff series against Barrie after ‘egregious behaviour’ at a movie theatre that a witness said included hitting an elderly woman on the side of her face with food and mocking her husband’s Asian accent.
