10-year-olds drink beer in dressing room
A YouTube video that surfaced recently -- and has since been removed -- depicts nine and 10-year-old hockey players posing with open bottles and cans of beer. It was shot several weeks ago at a tournament in Humboldt, Sask.
"Here we are in the locker-room, young men just having a beer," says the cameraman.
Members of the Sask-Can 2000 atom hockey team grin and brandish open bottles and cans of Coors Light. None are actually shown drinking.
Lorrie Heggie, head of the Sask-Can league, said Friday he has been dealing with the fallout from the video for two weeks. "This just breaks my heart," he said. "It's not what Sask-Can is all about."
Heggie says the head coach was not present during the filming, though the YouTube clip was cut with earlier footage of him in the locker-room, making it look as if he were there. He says one of the parents and the assistant coach are to blame.
Leftover beer and pizza intended for adults was brought into the locker-room after the game, but one of the parents shot the video and offered the beer to the boys, he says.
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10-year-old hockey players drink beer in dressing room video
