MONTREAL — A Montreal-area minor hockey association says a coach who ordered his team to do push-ups after a loss will sit out the rest of the season.
The organization's president says the disciplinary committee of Hockey Lac St-Louis has decided to suspend Louis Isabella until May 2017.
Jean-Pierre Fortier says Isabella ordered his 11- and 12 year-old peewee AAA players to do push-ups following a 7-2 loss on Sept. 18.
Although media reports said the children were assigned hundreds of push-ups, Fortier says he was told the number was between 50 and 100.
He said the organization believes push-ups can be ordered during training but are inappropriate as punishment for a defeat.
The team is currently finding another coach for the rest of the season.
