The sad jungle of DEK Hockey

“Speaking”. Furthermore, “kick in the face”, “threat”, “extreme assault”; This is not a weekly relationship of a federal prison goalkeeper. Moreover, These are some of the hundreds of suspension patterns during the last year. Therefore, in the recreational leagues of Dek Hockey in Quebec.

The Dek Hockey has experienced a dazzling progression for twenty years in Quebec. For example, About 100,000 people practice it. For example, Dek hockey centers grow like mushrooms. Moreover, It is not too expensive. Moreover, And if you haven’t played hockey much, but you like that, that’s the perfect solution.

For children too, it’s sad jungle dek hockey wonderful. Therefore, It is a beautiful accessible team sport. Therefore, And obviously, it’s really fun.

But in Dek Hockey, there is the word “hockey”. However, Thus, the big toxic lurin cloud that comes with hockey has also covered the world of dek hockey. For example, You know, this cloud that makes too much thick people when it concerns hockey?

This cloud, which makes a doctor, treats a 13 -year -old CR *** referee. Meanwhile, This cloud that makes an news and a lawyer threatened to death in a garage league at 10:24 p.m. Consequently, on Tuesday evening in Sorel. Moreover, This cloud. Furthermore, which makes a parent working in human resources, is crying out for a coach he should eat on mard. In addition, This cloud. In addition, which makes a secondary teacher, shouts to a girl referee that she should make the dishes instead of arbitrating.

In the light sad jungle dek hockey of my observations, this cloud seems even more toxic to the dek hockey than on the ice.

And it caused several dramas.

A facial reconstruction

In April 2023, in Lévis, a player struck another on several occasions, when he was already unconscious. The attacker was ordered to do community work.

In July 2024, a player wildly assaulted a referee, who underwent a jaw fracture and a concussion. He needed a facial reconstruction.

At the end of last week, in Lac-Saint-Jean, a guy gave a stick to another, who found himself hospitalized for a concussion and a sad jungle dek hockey major cut to a browser arcade.

This is what is publicized. But incidents of violence in this sport, it has become commonplace. Just browse the websites of the different leagues. consult the list of suspensions to see how annoying it is, what is happening in this sport.

The fourth dimension

The threats are common, especially towards the referees. Fucked coarseers and fights too (see below). And by the way, it does not only concern men. Several women are also suspended.

Think about it! You really have to lose a sense of reality to threaten a dek hockey referee a Monday evening in Charny. And the suspended players are not prison escapees. They are not always bad people. I know a few. When I tell them about it, they answer me: “Jean-Nic, you don’t understand, the referee, it was really a cellar.” It’s as if these guys were changing when sad jungle dek hockey a match begins.

That’s exactly that, underlines the doctor in sports psychology Dany Bernard, always involved in amateur hockey.

“For some players, when the match begins, they enter a fourth dimension […]. It’s proven, it’s documented, ”explains D^r Bernard.

He even looked into this issue during his doctorate. “The athletes told me: they allow themselves behaviors that they would not allow each other in everyday life. ” if not, we would be arrested, “they said.”

D^r Bernard also explains that a guy who spends his life making a job he does not like. for example, is a classic case of this kind of behavior. “He arrives in his match and he wants to prove himself. He wants to win. It is his way of increasing his esteem of him. And it will completely disconnect from reality. “

Jean-Maurice is no longer the manager of a store. He becomes the intrepid sad jungle dek hockey JM who will be ready to break his nose to anyone approaching his goalkeeper. He becomes the knight “G to the Maur”. who can give you a headlift in the face or a double failure when the referee does not look at the end of a tight match.

A necessary awareness

Do you have to blame the leaders of the leagues. the owners of the dek hockey centers, the inexperienced referees?

Admittedly, the leagues must rage even more for violent gestures. But most already do it. They already make a lot of awareness. It is up to violent players to wake up and get out of their fourth dimension. They are in the minority, but they are polluting a fantastic sport.

We must not wait for a player to become paraplegic to awaken consciences.

The Association of Balle Hockey Players in North America (NBHPA) brings together 75% of DEK Hockey players and leagues in Quebec. When a referee was brutally attacked last season, the association was released publicly to launch the alert.

“Let us question […]. Does a part of Dek are really worth it? What can we do collectively to help prevent this? ”, Written the association wrote to their members, adding that the attacker was going to be suspended for life.

Sad jungle dek hockey

Examples of suspensions in 2024-2

Here are some examples of suspensions in the last year in. the particular world of Dek Hockey. This is not an exhaustive list, but some examples among sad jungle dek hockey the many suspensions. Several leagues do not make suspension patterns accessible. Here are some that do it.

Sherbrooke

• 3^e man in an altercation. punches, strangulation, recurrence;
• Verbal abuse towards an official + launch the ball towards an official;
• Intimidation + recidivist;
• Punch + grab the gate of a player + recurrence;
• Water a player and give a 6 inch multiple times after the match + recurrence;
• Voluntary defeat following a game stoppage;
• Face;
• Having left the bench to intervene in an altercation;
• Instigator + assault + punch + double failure;
• Dardard + enter a player by the head;
• 3^e man in an altercation + Remove the helmet from the opposing player;
• Dardard in the belly;
• Dardard + give a kick + discriminatory remarks.

Quebec/Lévis

• Family rude.
• Dardage;
• Excessive harshness;
• Head;
• Excessive and multiple recurrences;
• Attempted injury;
• Fight;
• Punch out of the playing surface;
• Struck a referee;
• Fight out of the playing surface;
• Dangerous defeat on the goalkeeper;
• Threaten a referee.

Saguenay

• Double failure on a player. double failure in the head;
• To have darted the goalkeeper;
• Verbal abuses, launch his stick and altercation;
• Verbal abuse towards an official and refusal to leave;
• Attempted injury and punch;
• Hit a player on the ground, then blocker;
• Punch with the head;
• Punch and have torn off the helmet.

Trois-Rivières

• Abusive language towards an official;
• Punch and turn the match in derision;
• Defeat update.

Saint-Eustache

• Physical abuse towards an official;
• Verbal abuse towards an official;
• Physical abuse towards an organizer;
• RUDESSE + 3^e man sad jungle dek hockey + recurrence.

Drummondville

• Abus verbal;
• Assault;
• Having darted;
• Punch;
• Antactive driving;
• Extreme harshness.

Saint-Hyacinthe

• Dardage;
• Double failure to the head;
• Extreme coarse misconduct towards an official;
• Molester a referee.

Beautiful

• Excessive harshness;
• Verbal insults towards referees and extreme misconduct;
• Invite players, referees and managers to fight.