Hockey Dad Sues Because Son Didn't Win Award
Really makes you want to give up your time and effort to coach kids in sports activities, doesn't it? From CBC News comes this stupid story
A man in New Brunswick is taking the province's amateur hockey association to court after it passed over his son at an awards banquet.
Lawyers for the association were in court on Tuesday trying to have the case dismissed.
At last year's awards banquet, Stephen Croteau, 17, was sure he'd win the awards for playmaker of the year and most valuable player. He had scored 27 more points than his closest competitor.
But Croteau lost, getting only one vote out of 10 at the banquet, and Croteau's father, Michel, decided to hire lawyer Euclide Lebouthilier to sue the association.
"Stephen Croteau has been denied something that was rightfully his. He has a right to know what happened," said Lebouthilier.
Charles LeBlond, the lawyer for the province's amateur hockey association, says there are no legal grounds for bringing this kind of dispute to court.
"You would be giving people the right to advance the most frivolous of claims in situations where there's simply no basis for it," said LeBlond.
LeBlond says Croteau had no reason to assume the awards were his.
Croteau's lawyer says the family tried to appeal the association's decision but wasn't allowed to. They felt that going to court was their only option.
Stephen Croteau is suspended from playing pending resolution of the lawsuit.