Monday News

Wow... talk about players behaving badly. The two clips below are from the South Jersey Raptors of the AEHL. Six minutes into the first video you will see players consuming alcohol, and a player jumping out a hotel bedroom, apparently drunk, then vandalizing a vehicle in the parking lot. Early in the second video you see a player drop his shorts before jumping into a pool from an adjacent waterfall. Warning up front in case you're at the office or near small children - both clips have no shortage of foul language. I don't know what's more stupid: the acts committed in the videos, or that the players themselves recorded these videos and loaded them on YouTube. I've warned before about Myspace and FaceBook, and players needing to be smart about what goes on there lest a scout sees it. This obviously goes for YouTube as well. I guess Forrest Gump's mama got it right. It doesn't matter to me that these events happened within a league that is outside of USA Hockey. It happened within hockey and thus gives the game a black eye. Road trips don't give you carte blanche to misbehave. Anyway... in other news... Hockey fans welcome Topeka Roadrunners (includes videos)... Thomas Hickey out to revive T-birds' power play... Heavy suspensions from BCHL brawl (which did finally get posted on the BCHL discipline board)... Swift Current's Centennial Civic Centre renamed Credit Union iplex... New life is envisioned for Indiana's Pepsi Coliseum... Learning curve bars Alaska Avalanche from making big strides... 15-year-old goalie stands tall for Gatineau... North Iowa Outlaws fans are back in a big way... Omaha Lancers claim Fall Classic title... Voracek to spend year with Mooseheads...