A Player Receives a Lifetime Ban For Brutally Injuring a Referee

An appalling scene in Russia, when a 42 year old player, Nikolai Rizin, violently hit a referee in the face with his stick, and then hit him with his skate once on the floor. All for a penalty he didn't agree with.

This was the second time Rizin had been banned in this way. In 2016, he slammed a referee's head against the glass window and had been playing under a different name ever since.

It was his teammates and opponents who had to kick him out of there, otherwise there's no telling when he would have stopped. Sick bastard!

Credit: Markerzone.com

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