A Canadian Hockey Coach Purposefully Tripped A 13-Year-Old And Now He’s Going To Jail

Canada may be a utopian health-care paradise off the ice, but on the ice, it’s MADNESS.

1. Last June, Martin Tremblay, a 48-year-old minor-league hockey coach in Canada, tripped a 13-year-old opposing player, who broke his wrist falling on his 10-year-old teammate.

Yes, this actually happened.

2. After tripping him, the coach pointed at the kid like a professional wrestler.

3. Now the coach is going to jail for 15 days, and spending 12 months on probation.

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bgS2pcKT4NU.

Also, tripping the kid apparently broke up the coach’s marriage and hurt his construction business, and the tripping incident took place while he was off antidepressants, according to his lawyer.

Source: youtube.com

4. Moral of the story: don’t trip kids.

H/T to Barry Petchesky at Deadspin