{"id":14128,"date":"2026-01-13T10:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14128"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:42:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:42:57","slug":"baby-brawlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/13\/baby-brawlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Brawlers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2026\/01\/13\/mites-on-ice-brawl-hershey-bears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"main-content\">After hockey brawl among 8-year-olds, investigations are underway<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Youth hockey organizations said they were looking into the incident. The host Hershey Bears expressed disapproval of \u201cconduct that puts participants at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/des-bieler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Des Bieler<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Was This Brawl At A Pee-Wee Hockey Game Staged?\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ar8doGxXg0g?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Youth hockey organizations said they are looking into a brawl involving an 8-and-under squad from Pennsylvania that was playing an intrasquad scrimmage Saturday between periods of an American Hockey League game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition was presented as a \u201cMites on Ice\u201d segment at the home arena of the Hershey Bears, the top minor league affiliate of the NHL\u2019s Washington Capitals. Video of the episode showed youngsters \u2014 clad in skates, helmets and other hockey gear \u2014 throwing punches at one another and spilling onto the ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2026\/01\/13\/mites-on-ice-brawl-hershey-bears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WaPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post After hockey brawl among 8-year-olds, investigations are underway Youth hockey organizations said they were looking into the incident. The host Hershey Bears expressed disapproval of \u201cconduct that puts participants at risk.\u201d By\u00a0Des Bieler Youth hockey organizations said they are looking into a brawl involving an 8-and-under squad from Pennsylvania that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14129,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128\/revisions\/14129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}