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Did arena staff do the right thing?

  • Yes

    Votes: 34 30.6%

  • No

    Votes: 18 16.2%

  • There has to be more to this story... no one is that mean.

    Votes: 59 53.2%
  • Total voters
    111
Stephen said:
Well, they weren’t glued to their seats!
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Kid might have been ready to wet his pants.

Grandma and I have four sons, three daughters, a bunch of in-laws and five grandkids. Been there, done that. Nature calls.

I don't know that I would want to separate the kid from his stick either. Still, you can't carry it around, and Scotiabank staff did the right thing.

Dad's a goof -- for lack of a better term -- for not telling the whole story.
 
m1ker said:
Be careful, only group think is allowed. Mods cancel him
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This.

Soon as I read it I said yeah ok lol- this isn't the whole story. Honestly, am I and a few others the only f**ing ones who knew it wasn't true?

And low and behold the truth comes out.

Yet here we have the majority of people condemning ScotiaBank Arena, calling them all kinds of expletives, without the whole story - only to prove they were wrong. Sorry but social media is a clear and present threat to civilization with the way it's going. We're going to have to find a way to deal with this gigantic problem because 85% of it is littered with zombies who have zero idea how to think first


It's genuinely frightening how many idiot people are roaming this Earth on a daily basis
 
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It's really too bad. The focus of this story should have been how cool it was of Nick Suzuki to give the kid a stick and take a picture with him. Instead, we have the kids dad making up a bunch of crap that didn't happen and thus being the focal point of this story.

In light of all this, there are people still blaming the arena staff/management for the events that transpired. I generally hate sticking up for corporations, but in this case, they're not wrong at all.

Sure, we all hate the Canadians, but I'd like to think that as fans, we would never go out of our way to make their organization look bad. I think in the years to come, this kid will read the story of what actually happened and be genuinely embarrassed for his dad. Poor kid.
 
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Squiffy said:
Maybe dad just had enough? Kid had a bloody lip, it’s getting late, kid does NOT want to turn over the stick because it’s the greatest thing he’s ever gotten, teams losing, not serving beer anymore lol... call it a night.

Just spitballing but anyone here with kids who ever took a youngish one to a game can see that shaking down, not a huge stretch.
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I’m sure there could be some kind of reason although the kid didn’t look that young and it wasn’t that late. I stayed until the buzzer and was home in Burlington by 10:30.
I realize everyone is different though, they do seem like a whiny bunch so perhaps the kid was making a fuss.
 
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1. Habs fan kid should not have been allowed in the arena.
2. Kid should have been offered free popcorn to throw stick back
3. Police should have arrested parents for carrying a weapon in the car on the way home.
4.kid will never be a good player as he obviously grips the stick to tight!
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Has this been reported to the Children's Aid Society? Not the incident with the stick, but forcing a young child to be a Habs fan could be considered child abuse.
 
X66 said:
Every Habs fan I know that’s born in Ontario is a dumb ass.

It’s scientifically proven.
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Room temp IQ's, the lot of them. Or maybe they just don't have the self-loathing required to become a Leaf fan like us.

Well, I'll give them some credit, at least they aren't fridge temp IQ's. That honor would go to the Bruins fans at that Leaf game in Boston I was at a couple weeks ago. Been in opposing team barns lots, but that was the first time I went "holy crap, I legit don't feel safe at all here" after some Massholes decided to scream at me and spray beer on me after Kampf made it 6-1.
 
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Habs media trying to find something to avoid the reality of their shit state. The Bell Centre literally has the same rule where you can't possess a stick of any length, unless it's a medical cane.
 
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X66 said:
Every Habs fan I know that’s born in Ontario is a dumb ass.

It’s scientifically proven.
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The 6ix said:
What a bunch of assholes.

They should have offered to store the stick for him until the end of the game, and asked him to please pick it up on his way out of the arena.

Sheesh.
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Apparently they did, they just couldn’t allow a stick to be brought into the seating area. I know it’s likely some silly policy that was set up because the stick could be used nefariously but they can’t make exceptions.

Does it look good? No but I think this whole thing was blown out of proportion because it was a Habs fan.
 
The Hab Dad didn’t want to see Auston score another goal… come on son, grab my hockey stick, we’re leaving.
 
Squiffy said:
Maybe dad just had enough? Kid had a bloody lip, it’s getting late, kid does NOT want to turn over the stick because it’s the greatest thing he’s ever gotten, teams losing, not serving beer anymore lol... call it a night.

Just spitballing but anyone here with kids who ever took a youngish one to a game can see that shaking down, not a huge stretch.
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That is how I read the situation too. I looked at the pictures and you can see the kid has been crying and even with Suzuki beside him you can see the tears in his eyes. The lip is actually quite bad. In fact, when you read the original tweet, the dad is not really complaining, he is laughing at the situation. I would bet 100$ that the kid didn't want to turn over the stick and that is why they choose to leave.

Your staff did the right thing I'm certain of it.
 
Paddyjack said:
That is how I read the situation too. I looked at the pictures and you can see the kid has been crying and even with Suzuki beside him you can see the tears in his eyes. The lip is actually quite bad. In fact, when you read the original tweet, the dad is not really complaining, he is laughing at the situation. I would bet 100$ that the kid didn't want to turn over the stick and that is why they choose to leave.

Your staff did the right thing I'm certain of it.
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Yes, the whole thing is a way out of proportion. I don't really read dad as complaining either, I mean on the base of it it's a fair statement, had to leave because sticks aren't allowed. This is true. Unsaid is, we could have stayed but my son didn't want to give up the stick so we called it a night. But that's not really the detail one puts in what you'd expect to be a simple tweet saying ty to a player.

And you're right, the poor kid looks miserable. I'd pack it in too.
 
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The 6ix said:
Kid might have been ready to wet his pants.

Grandma and I have four sons, three daughters, a bunch of in-laws and five grandkids. Been there, done that. Nature calls.

I don't know that I would want to separate the kid from his stick either. Still, you can't carry it around, and Scotiabank staff did the right thing.

Dad's a goof -- for lack of a better term -- for not telling the whole story.
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What makes me laugh is that somewhere in that mischievous brain of his he actually thought that he was going to get away with it. However its my feeling that with the way things work in today's world, he's going to be viewed in some kind of positive light, so in that way I suppose he will get away with it. The bottom line is, he lied and it created some real problems for some people and making them look guilty for doing their jobs.
 
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