Things got ugly during a hockey game between the South Carolina Stingrays and the Jacksonville Icemen. A couple of the South Carolina Stingrays players rushed Jacksonville Icemen’s Jacob Panetta and beat his ass up for making a racial gesture towards Jordan Subban — who’s the brother of NHL star P.K. Subban.
Officials were quick to step in and it appeared as though the situation was defused, as players from both teams made their way to their respective benches. But at some point during their journey off the ice, Icemen defenseman Jacob Panetta made a racial gesture towards the Stingrays’ Jordan Subban — who’s the brother of NHL star P.K. Subban.
Jordan didn’t take kindly to the gesture, for obvious reasons, so he went after Panetta…and so did a few of his teammates.
At least three different Stingrays could be see throwing punches at Panetta, who was the victim of some rather nasty uppercuts from South Carolina tough guy Nico Blachman.
When it was all said and done, both Panetta and Blachman were each handed 27 minutes in penalties, while Subban was hit with a two minute unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and a 10 minute misconduct.
Panetta was released from the team, but states he was doing a bodybuilder pose.
The ECHL has indefinitely suspended Jacksonville Icemen defenseman Jacob Panetta, pending a hearing for what South Carolina Stingrays defenseman Jordan Subban said was a racist taunt Saturday night.
The Icemen later announced that they are releasing Panetta.
Panetta posted a video on Twitter on Sunday, with a tweet that said “racism has no place in this world and no place in the game we love.” Panetta said he told Subban that, “You’re only tough when the refs get involved,” and then “did a tough-guy bodybuilder-like gesture toward him” that Panetta said he has made to other players in other games.
“My actions toward Jordan were not because of race, and were not intended as a racial gesture. I did not contemplate at the time that it would be received as a racial gesture, and I attempted to convey this to Jordan when we were sent to the dressing room during the game,” he said.
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