Colorado youth hockey player facing assault charge for incident during game
A Colorado youth hockey player faces a municipal assault charge after an incident that happened in a recent tournament game.
The specific teams have not been identified, but according to Denver7, Mikey Keenan released that his 15-year-old son, Xander, was the player who was assaulted.
Xander was attacking towards the boards to retrieve a loose puck, but an opposing players skate got tangled up, and he tripped, landing on top of the opposing player's stick. This is when things got ugly.
The opposing player attempted to grab his stick, but pushed Xander down multiple times in the process. Xander took a hard knock to his head when colliding with the ice, and lost vision before feeling three kicks to his head.
The unidentified opposing player realized that it could have ended much worse than it did.
The opposing player was apparently upset about trash talking from the game, but that obviously does not warrant his actions towards Xander.
According to Colorado Amateur Hockey and USA Hockey, the player is suspended until further notice until a formal hearing can take place, but it seems likely a hefty suspension will be in place and that's if he is lucky. A life-time ban from USA Hockey could be in place. Video of the incident can be seen below.
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NOVEMBRE 29 | 153 ANSWERS Colorado youth hockey player facing assault charge for incident during game Does the youth player warrant this punishment? | ||
| Absolutely | 72 | 47.1 % |
| No it's hockey | 42 | 27.5 % |
| More investigation is needed | 39 | 25.5 % |
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| Valeri Nichushkin | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Anthony Cirelli | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Jake Debrusk | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Jonathan Drouin | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Sebastian Aho | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Ivan Barbashev | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Samuel Girard | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Oliver Kylington | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Anton Lundell | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Patrick Maroon | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Lukas Reichel | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Marco Rossi | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Tomas Tatar | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Matthew Boldy | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Jack Eichel | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Brandon Hagel | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Noah Hanifin | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Travis Konecny | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Anze Kopitar | - | 2 | 2 | |
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Jets | 20 | 17 | 3 | - | 34 | |
Wild | 19 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 29 | |
Hurricanes | 19 | 14 | 5 | - | 28 | |
Devils | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 28 | |
Capitals | 19 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 27 | |
Golden Knights | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 26 | |
Maple Leafs | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 26 | |
Rangers | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 25 | |
Panthers | 20 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 25 | |
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