A team plays at The Gardens Ice House in Laurel, Md.
Once in a while we hear about incidents of racism in hockey, usually on the largest stage: Joel Ward getting called racist names on Twitter after he scored the series-clinching playoff goal in Boston, Devante Smith-Pelly having ‘basketball’ shouted at him in Chicago, and a banana peel thrown onto the ice at Wayne Simmonds in Ontario. While these were relatively recent fan-on-player incidents, the story of 13-year-old Divyne Apollon II showed that players still taunt other players with this garbage, even in youth hockey.