In a round robin U-18 World Championship hockey tournament game in Estonia earlier this week, Lithuania’s 17-year-old Danielius Nomanovas wound up and threw his stick across the ice, hitting a referee in the shoulder less than 20 feet away, as the clock expired in a 3-2 loss to Great Britain. Although we're willing to keep an open mind to the slight chance that Nomanovas was just throwing his stick in frustration after a loss and had no intention of hitting the referee, common sense should have told him that using your hockey stick as a large projectile to throw across the ice is NEVER a good idea, especially when the ice is filled with other skaters.
H/T Sports Grid.
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