Youth hockey coach, parents clash over alleged tirade over 9-year old’s 200th goal puck

It’s standard hockey practice that whenever one scores a milestone goal — be it their first, 100th, 500th, etc. — the puck is retrieved from behind the goalie and given to the player to be put on display or entered into a Hall of Fame.
This wasn’t the case for 9-year old Austin Foglietta of Lynn, Mass. who scored his 200th goal last month and asked the referee if he could keep the puck. The official obliged which allegedly set off his coach.
From The Daily Item:
“He said, ‘ridiculous, ridiculous, that’s the most selfish thing I’ve ever seen,’” [Austin's dad] Bill Foglietta said during an interview about the incident in his Salem home. “He took the puck away from Austin and threw it back on the ice. He broke my son’s heart and he did it publicly. It just tore me up inside.”




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