A Youth Hockey Intermission Bit Went Viral for All the Wrong Reasons

A clip from a Hershey Bears intermission mite hockey game shows one team's goalie leaving the net to join a scrum that broke out between the two youth teams — gloves off, players squaring up, a crease left completely unattended. It's since been picked up by several outlets, with officials reportedly looking into what happened.

We're not going to speculate on who organized it or why — that's for the people involved to sort out. But it's sparked a real conversation among hockey parents about what's appropriate for kids to be doing in front of a crowd, staged or not.

Where's the line between fun bit and bad idea? Curious what our hockey parents think.

Source: Posted by Ian Oland (@ianoland) on X, video credited to @lhollenbach515. Also covered by NBC News and Breitbart following a Hershey Bears AHL intermission youth mite game, January 2026.