The Ontario Hockey League is a league for children and young adults to start their hockey careers, and for some to hopefully get noticed by NHL scouts, and eventually have a long career in professional hockey if they so choose.
It is not a league where discrimination and racial bias should be tolerated (nor should it be tolerated in any league around the world), but this is a topic that the OHL does take seriously because of coaches and General Managers working with children.
On March 5th, it was announced that the OHL had begun an investigation into Flint Firebirds, President of Hockey Operations, Terry Christiensen would be suspended pending a full investigation by the OHL for allegedly making an inappropriate racial gesture towards a player as reported by Rick Westhead.
The commissioner of the OHL, David Branch, said this would be a full-scale investigation, and the findings would be published later this week.
Yesterday, Jeff Marek of Sportsnet reported that due to the results of the OHL's thorough investigation, Terry Christiensen had been banned from the league.
