A jarring racial attack has left a young Toronto hockey player contemplating whether he ever wants to play the game again.
"It broke me. I turned into a ghost. I didn't know what to do," 15-year-old Yonas Nicola-Lalonde said of the alleged incident. "After it ended, I skated off the ice and went to the change room and tried to recompose myself because I was in so much shock.The incident happened Sept. 30 in a game between Nicola-Lalonde's Humber Valley Sharks team and the Forest Hill Force, both of the Greater Toronto Hockey League.It all started with a fairly innocuous play.
"When it happened to me the first time, I was only 10 years old and the player that said it at the time couldn't have understood how impactful and negative that word could be," he said. "But now I'm 15 and everyone knows how offensive that word is.
"Something was clearly wrong, [Nicola-Lalonde] was going wild, he was like, 'come on, come on,' to the referee. He was looking for an answer," one of the team's coaches, Padraig Kenny, told CBC Sports. "He comes over and take his helmet off on the bench and he is just balling his eyes out, just crying. He whips off his neck guard and throws his helmet. He is yelling, 'he called me the 'N' word,' pointing at the kid. It made me sick.
Aliu tweeted about the incident on Thursday morning. That same day, Nicola-Lalonde's father, Paul Lalonde, said a third-party investigator from the GTHL asked for a meeting, the first time either his son or the team had heard from the organization.
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