By Nathan Kanter

SJHL hands down discipline on multiple North Stars

Nov 3, 2017 | 12:00 PM

Following Tuesday’s post-game scrum between the Battlefords North Stars and Kindersley Klippers, the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League came down hard with discipline.

Unfortunately for the North Stars, the suspensions handed out are almost entirely to one side.

Battlefords forward Troy Gerein and defenceman Connor Manegre have each been suspended for five games, while forwards Keith Anderson and Connor McIntosh have been suspended for two games each. Head coach and general manager Brandon Heck has been handed a three-game ban as well. The North Stars were also fined $1,500.

All four players and Heck have already served one game of their suspensions, as they sat out Wednesday’s shootout win over Humboldt.

For the Klippers, the only player to be disciplined was defenceman Taylor Derynck, who received a one-game suspension for being the third man in on a fight.

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In the Junior A supplement, rule 7.2 states that when three or more fights occur in the same stoppage, all instigating players receive a five-game suspension and all subsequent players from the instigating team who fight receive an automatic two-game suspension. It also states, “If it is clear by the evidence that the multiple fights were instigated by one team, players from the non-instigating team shall not be suspended.”

This means the league determined the North Stars were the clear instigators in Tuesday’s post-game brawl.

The two teams will go back to the scene of the crime Saturday night for a rematch at the West Central Events Centre in Kindersley. It will be the Klippers first game since the incident, while the North Stars are coming off a 3-2 win over Humboldt in the shootout Wednesday.

The North Stars are first in the Olympic Buildings Division with an 11-1-1 record, while the Klippers are last at 8-5-2.

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