9-Year-Old Lynn Hockey Players Face Ban After Puck Dispute
LYNN (CBS) - Two 9-year-olds could end up being kicked out of their youth hockey league in Lynn over a dispute that all started because of a hockey puck.
Last month, one of Holly Foglietta's twin sons scored his 200th goal.
Foglietta says her son had talked to the referee about keeping the puck when he scored. But when that happened, she says her sons' coach, Bill Norcross, became angry that the game was stopped, yelled at her son about being selfish, and tossed the puck back on the ice.
WBZ-TV's Jim Armstrong reports
Norcross supporters paint a different picture. Norcross' attorney, Kevin Foley, says Holly Foglietta blew the incident out of proportion and could not let it go.
"She began posting nasty things on Facebook, using terms like child abuse. The Lynn Youth Hockey Board decided to terminate her family from the Lynn Youth Hockey presumably for that conduct," Foley told WBZ NewsRadio 1030.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Mark Katic reports
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Members of the Lynn Youth Hockey Board met in closed session Friday night. They were trying to determine if the actions of Holly Foglietta justified the decision to kick the twins off their hockey team.
"This is surreal I never in my life thought this would happen," said Bill Foglietta the boys' father.
The board heard testimony from Bill and the family attorney Gary Zerola. They will issue their decision in five to ten days.
