PeeWee Player Stands Alone

[Wickabee]

Matt Marotta did what he was supposed to do, like he's done throughout his minor hockey career at the end of a game. His Viking Construction Tier 1 peewee Cougars had just lost 3-2 in overtime to the Nanaimo Clippers in the fifth-place playoff Sunday at the 43rd annual Coca-Cola Peewee Hockey Classic tournament. Marotta skated out to the blueline, kneeled and waited to shake hands with the Clippers. But he was all alone. None of his 11-and-12-year Cougar teammates and none of his coaches joined him to uphold that post-game tradition. They'd already left the ice and went to the dressing room...more

Just wanted to let everyone know sportsmanship isn't dead. My somewhat collected thoughts on this can be read here, but the gist of it is we should all applaud this young man.

[roaddogg02316]

He's being a good sport, while the rest of his team is choosing to be sore losers. There is a stipulation with how it all ended, so they aren't happy. But what can you do, it's not professional hockey. Even pros have tantrums like this. I'd hope the kid doesn't get razzed for being a good sport.

[habsmtl09]

Lets just hope that some nhlers come across this and they honor that kid! he deserves it

[roaddogg02316]

Lets just hope that some nhlers come across this and they honor that kid! he deserves it

That would be good. Someone should post the story to some NHLers twitter or something.

[mingus_md]

Wow. What a great story of sportsmanship. A really nice thing to read to start my day.

[habsmtl09]

That would be good. Someone should post the story to some NHLers twitter or something.

Just did to couple of nhlers and some journalist..

[Wickabee]

Just did to couple of nhlers and some journalist..

Let's hope it does something!

I'm glad you guys are focusing on Marotta and not on the coach like so many others.

[hossa18sens]

Good for him. Everyone else should be ashamed.