'No winning' for N.S. goalie who was the target of racial slurs on P.E.I.

How awful for this hockey player and shame on the players who participated in this. The use of racial slurs has no place in hockey or anywhere else for that matter. Grow the hell up already.

Slurs have no place anywhere, but the locker room is exactly the place to find them. Hockey, Football, Autoracing, whatever. Whenever men have to prove their manhood and virility, they will use whatever tools are in the toolbox.

The kids who did this are old enough to understand and personally, I would have been OK if the ban was permanent. But I'm also sure that the parents are more than partially to blame, especially since they deny their little angels did this... and of course, nobody owned up or apologized. The parents should be banned from going to games too, when the angels get back.

Parents are the worst.

Don't remember hearing any slurs when I played sports but those memories may have been flushed. I do remember asking questions about their mother or sisters though. As you may suspect, I was pretty imaginative about my trash talking.

Oh, I get that. Many moons ago my ex and I used to go to Junior A hockey games and sit right behind the team bench with the visiting bench just to the left. Very low partition in front of us so we got to hear all kinds of banter between the players and that included much bad language, insults, etc. I know it's just to get players fired up and whatever. But IMO racial slurs cross that line and are unnecessary.

I never would have suspected that of you...

I hide it well.

Don't remember hearing any slurs when I played sports but those memories may have been flushed. I do remember asking questions about their mother or sisters though. As you may suspect, I was pretty imaginative about my trash talking.

When I used to referee, that was all I heard. It's why so many first nations players never came back. And partly why I stopped too.

I think racism is something we have to unlearn. It's in our reptile brain that things that are different are bad. And kids can be the worst kind of bad, especially to each other. I know, because I was a kid.

And I still hear stuff like that racing. And it usually stops when you stare at the person a little too long.

In Nova Scotia, I was the "invisible" minority in senior HS, so I'm the one who got bullied about it. Not technically racism, but close enough. One day, another guy was trying to start a fight with me (I'm not a fighter) and this huge black guy I barely knew came to my defence. So you can imagine that any racism I may have had went out the window.