Official statement from the league
Saginaw Spirit forward Ethan Hay has been suspended for five games as a result of an incident on Sunday, October 27th.
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This post is not popular with most posters that read this, It is addressed to all of us, not just one in particular. I write it for the protection of young hockey players, for all teams and looking for their support from true hockey fans and family men and women
It is unfortunate if Ethan Hay suspension, as well as are for Hattingen and Boulton of London, regardless of their disgraceful acts, don't find their ways to our public forums for continued personal defaming attacks. I understand the difficulties for all of us to restrain from public comments. What players say or do on the ice, they have responsibilities to answer to, it is for the on-ice refs and the league to handle them. I'll defend and support all junior team aged players for or against alike, against any embarrassment on our public Forums. As I defended Parekh and Braden Haché in our London Threads last season against a barrage of humiliating comments, as I defended many other junior hockey players from other teams in recent years. I will defend any public defamation and degrading comments for our amusement from all junior hockey teams, leagues or countries. Chirping does not mean humiliating a player in public. We do have private forums for private comments, if diplomacy is not part of our language
There will be time enough to deal with public humiliation when they reach the pro levels and adulthood, let's not advance it for them and break up the little bit of kids life left in them. If they break rules, small or big, we have on ice officials and league personnel to handle them. If they break the law, we all have a good legal system and police force to handle any law-breakers including young hockey players, they are not exempt from the law. Let the kids have the little fun left, and let them learn facts of life in their own environment. Protection against mental illness, early undesired retirement, taking the wrong path of illegal substance, and there I say, suicidal as well. We are fans, let's all be responsible fans before we write in public forums
I thank you all in the names of the kids for your attention