A dad in Washington state is accused of assaulting two teenage referees at a youth hockey game, in what police called a “clearly unprovoked” attack.
Uriel Isaac Cortes Gonzalez, 42, can be seen in a video walking onto the ice and shoving the referees at the 12U rec hockey game at the Kraken Community Iceplex in Seattle, the New York Post reported.
The footage was originally posted by Pacific Northwest Amateur Hockey Association (PNAHA) president Jody Carpenter on Instagram, showing Gonzalez shoving the referees, ages 13 and 14, as they stood on the side of the arena during a break in the game.
“Hockey is a game of passion, but there is absolutely no place in our sport for the kind of egregious and outrageous behavior that occurred during a 12U Rec game here in Washington,” Carpenter wrote in the social meda post. “In my over 40 years in hockey, I have never…
