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Accusations ranging from sizeism to anti-Anglophone bigotry are swirling around the Outaouais after an 8-year-old hockey player, Jared Murray, was deemed "too big and strong" by league officials to participate in regional playoffs in the novice B division. Shawville and District Minor Hockey has pulled its teams from the Hockey Outaouais playoffs as a result.
Mario Lemery, president of Hockey Outaouais,
told the
Ottawa Citizen that Murray's Shawville team was asked to move up a division at the beginning of the season, but declined. "At the beginning of the year, [Shawville] said, 'We should play in the B because we're not strong.' They were not honest at the beginning of the season," he said. "It's no fun squashing every team. No one wants to play the team."
The team finished third in its 16-team league, with an 11-3-2 record. Jared, who stands 4'9" and weighs in at 110 pounds, scored 51 goals.
Shawville minor hockey complains they weren't privy to the Hockey Outaouais deliberations and that even at the meetings they do attend, they are unable to participate because they are all conducted in French. "We feel we are being discriminated against because we're English," one official said.
For years, Shawville fought unsuccessfully against joining Hockey Quebec. They lost a court battle in 1995. "We're always like the ugly step-child," said Tim Murray, Jared's father, who works as a scout for the New York Rangers. "It has been that way since they forced us to stop playing in the (Ottawa) Valley."
