A combination of a thrown stick and thrown punches have given a senior hockey player in Newfoundland a three-game suspension and an indefinite ban from one of his league’s six arenas.
Defenceman Justin Pender, who plays with the Clarenville Caribous of the Avalon East Senior Hockey League, is facing discipline after he threw a broken stick towards a taunting fan in an arena hallway, then walked down that hallway and punched the man several times.
The incident was captured on security video and shared widely on Facebook.
In the video, one of Pender’s teammates comes running down the hall after Pender, followed by Ivan Hapgood, the general manager of the Caribous.
“I’ll make it clear to you. I don’t condone, in any way at all, the actions of Justin Pender in that incident,” Hapgood told …