Hockey Player Criminally Charged

February 5, 2010 by Mother Pucker
Filed under: NHL News 

Once again we have another real world example of a hockey player being charged with a criminal offense. On January 12th in Edmonton, a Midget AA hockey player was charged with Aggravated Assault for a spearing incident that sent the complainant to hospital for emergency surgery.

As I’ve mentioned before in the Patrice Cormier incident, it seems that the ice has been that one lawless area that hasn’t been touched much before, but this is in an indication that things are going to change. Just because you are signed up to play a sport such as hockey you can’t expect to be exempt from following the rules set out in the Criminal Code of Canada.

Before I ask everyone their thoughts on this issue of criminal charges being laid out in hockey, I have to say that while you can consent to assault, you can not consent to assault bodily harm and up (aggravated, death, etc). Now with that in mind, what do you think of this whole issue?

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3 Comments on Hockey Player Criminally Charged

  1. Dustin Longpre on Fri, 5th Feb 2010 9:35 am

    2. Great topic. I played hockey from a wee guy to 18 years of age. At some point we are going to have to accept the law getting involved to police the sport. If the governing bodies like the NHL can’t get their adult players under control, how can we expect youth to be any more responsible? Good on the QJHL for taking proactive steps. It would be nice to see the NHL and many other leagues putting stiffer fines/penalties/suspensions in place for acts that do or have the potential to severely injure a player or even kill them.

  2. Hockeyhoran on Fri, 5th Feb 2010 10:03 am

    3. Probably some dumb ass hockey parent who’s not taking response for their 13 year old outlaw gooner of a son

  3. Zhukov43 on Fri, 5th Feb 2010 10:51 am

    4. Well football players in England always misbehave we have just lost our national team captain to a sex scandal many cases of girls getting roasted and the such they even videod that one drink driving car smashes Even the papers set up stings football managers get done for tax evasion and tapping players up so hockey I guess is clean as a whistle cos you don’t hear bad news about players and managers of teams every week good on you for having a respectable sport

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