Racist gesture earns 18-game suspension from MJHL
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The Manitoba Junior Hockey League has suspended Klim Georgiev of the Dauphin Kings for 18 games after the 20-year-old defenceman was assessed a gross misconduct for making a racist gesture on Feb. 19.
The league announced its decision Thursday night after completing a review of the incident, which came at the end of a game between the Kings and the visiting Waywayseecappo Wolverines.
Georgiev was seen make a bow-and-arrow gesture after Dauphin won the game 3-2.
The MJHL said in a release the disciplinary measure was the result of “discriminatory taunting” under Hockey Canada rule 11.4.
Georgiev, who has already served of game of the suspension, will miss Dauphin’s final 11 regular-season games, including a home-and-home series with the Wolverines this weekend, and seven playoff games.
“The discriminatory taunting was a public display which consisted of a widely recognized racial gesture which was very hurtful to many persons who viewed it,” said the league release. “The gesture was directed specifically to an indigenous player while he was skating away well after the final buzzer of the game.
“This gesture was indicated that it was in retaliation to the action of the opposing player making a celebratory gesture earlier in the game after a goal. After thorough review of the video and in consultation with the on-ice officials, this factor was found to be without merit or justification. The opposing players’ celebratory action was a common hockey manner of celebration after a goal.”
The Wolverines are based on the Waywayseecappo First Nation and are the only indigenous-owned franchise in the MJHL.
The league also said Georgiev’s apology to the targeted player and the Wolverines organization had been accepted.
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