A Saskatoon pee wee hockey coach has taken to social media to say he's sorry for the way he treated an official during his team’s last game of the season.
John Lagimodiere, an assistant coach of the Thunder Aces, says he was out of line on Saturday at Lions Arena when his team was losing 9-5 late in the third period.
The referee kicked Lagimodiere out of the game after being on the official was on the receiving end of verbal abuse from the coach of the 11- and 12-year-old players.
Lagimodiere says he’s since thought about his actions and apologized to the referee. He also wrote a lengthy Facebook post saying he's embarrassed sorry to anyone who might have witnessed the altercation.
“I now realize that not liking or agreeing on the way a game is being refereed does not allow me to act like a moron and yell at and or abuse a referee,” Lagimodiere wrote in the Facebook post that was shared more than 80 times within the first day. “In this day and age with all of the seminars you have to take and after watching other abusive behaviour from parents, you would think I would have learned.
“I would like to thank the ref for ejecting me from the game and for making me do the walk of shame around the rink to our dressing room. That was when I realized the idiocy of my actions and the embarrassment kicked in. My mom was there too. “
