Sunday, March 23, 2008

Father knows best

Jonathan Roy, the son of legendary NHL goalie Patrick Roy, is facing discipline for beating the tar out of another goalie in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. The trouble started when at 19:32 of the second period, Quebec forward Christophe Poirer and Chicoutimi centre Joel Champagne collided in Quebec's end of the rink. All 10 players immediately threw their gloves off and started a brawl. Roy, who plays for Quebec, didn't want to be left out of the action so he skated across the ice, looking for Chicoutimi goalie Bobby Nadeau. The refs restrained Roy for a little bit before letting him go to break up the other fights. Bad idea by the refs. Roy continued to go for Nadeau, and when he met up with him, he went crazy. Roy slammed Nadeau back into his own goal and started to pummel him. Even when Nadeau crawled to the ice, Roy continued to pound him while the refs were on the other side of the rink. As Roy skated away after the fight (I guess it wasn't much of a fight, it was more like target practice for Roy), he put both of his middle fingers in the air and pointed them to the crowd.

Now this is definitely not the classiest thing I've ever seen, but I'm not going to say I didn't enjoy watching it. I hope Nadeau wasn't injured, and I know that Roy will get suspended, but it was hilarious to see how much he flipped out. I guess we should have known that Roy had that in him though, his dad was the same way.

Story from TSN Canada

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