Youth hockey coach, parents clash over alleged tirade over 9-year old’s 200th goal puck

Wow what a joke of a mother. Go pay to get yer kid on some elite team and stop ruining it for the other kids.
If this was a 200th assist then I'd feel differently

A dispute in Lynn that spirals out of control? No way!!

Lynn, Lynn, City of Sin. You never come out the way you went in.

Let the kids play and bar the mother from the rink. Easy solution that will help everyone. Would the next Lindros family please step up...........

My guess is, the truth is somewhere in the middle. The kid probably wanted to keep the puck as the 200, but it wouldn't surprise me if the coach and the mother were at each others throats for the entire season.

Puck her!

Youth hockey bloggers will be all over this story. Did ESPN interview the kid on how it felt to score 200 goals in the Lynn Youth Hockey League?? I probably scored 200 goals playing youth hockey, but me or my parents never kept track. #$%$ I was just out there having fun playing the game I love.

This is ridiculous, but why is a 9 year old already counting his goals? Actually it's probably his mother who keeps track. Crazy hockey moms are crazy

this is hockey ppl!!!! a sport!!! it's supposed to be fun,get the kids some exercise and teach them about team work, fair play. sportsmanship?????? these kinds of parents should be banned from the arena !! they are horrible to hear and watch during a game. the coach is there for a couple of reasons .1. to teach them how to play 2. make sure they play fair 3. make sure they have fun 4. and last but certainly not least, how to lose like gentlemen and to to show grace even in defeat. it's obvious the parents didn't get any education in this dept as they grew up, or they would have better manners ,especially in public.

"...the league suspended Austin and his twin brother, William, from the competing."

Come on Yahoo. From the competing????? Are these writers sending in these stories from their phones?

I don't remember ever keeping anything from my youth exploits other than trophies at the end of the year.

Wow! Really, who keeps track of a 9 yr olds goals, Up to 200!?!?! That is utter insanity. I can see Hockey Mom in the mini-van on way to the rink, "little Johnny you have 192 goals so far this season, make sure after you score your 8th goal today to ask the ref for the puck." I wonder how many assists he has? lol this is ridiculous.

I think the most disturbing aspect of this is the fact the mother has been keeping a running tally on the kids goals. Hilarious. Guess I should look back over the past four years and add my kids goals up, he might have a milestone goal on the way! What a freak. She should be investigated for being an unfit mother.

Horrible, selfish, overbearing parents. The kids will turn out to be just like them.

"... the league suspended Austin and his twin brother, William, from the competing."

From the competing?

Say "yes" to good grammar!

I hope Austin gets drafted by an NHL team someday. After he walks off that stage on draft day, he will be interviewed by the NHL Network. And when the host asks who he would like to thank, he should first thank his mother who always believed in him and was his biggest fan. And then he should finally tell that frustrated pee-wee coach to go bleep himself...

Mom: You're setting yourself and this kid up for a lot trouble later in your lives.

Its not like they knock them out of the park and lose them. If it can wait until after the game, its about the tradition. If it has to be mid game, its about the show

You've had so many incidents with the league that they had to suspend your kids from playing while they tried to sort out your latest round of #$%$ yet the coach is the #$%$ Riiiiigggghhhhttttttt. Also, "borderline child abuse"?? There are not enough faces or palms in the world for me to have the correct reaction to those types of insane statements. And as people have pointed out, who on earth keeps track of their kid's "career" points in minor hockey??? That's some Tiger Mom stuff right there.

the kids were barred from competing? sounds like the parents have a lot to do with this. As an ex player, i still am in limbo on letting my 3 yr old start to play. Many parents live through their children accomplishments and it is sad to watch their totally lame actions.

Was it really fair for this boy to have to take the brunt of issues between adults? When any athlete hits a milestone, they celebrate in some way. I don't think its out of line to take a moment to acknowlede that a child hit the 200 goal mark, that is a pretty big accomplishment. After reading alot of these comments here and on other articles pertaining to this, it seems to me that some of the other parents are jealous that it wasn't their child, and I can bet that if it was, they would want their child to be acknowledged too and that all of the adults in this situation are at fault for different reasons and the real issue of the children and their loss is being shadowed by all the drama.