Minor League Hockey Player Loses Mind, Appears To Hit Linesman With His Stick After Getting Ejected

The ECHL is two steps below the National Hockey League, and if you don't think the fellas playing there care, you are mistaken.

Sometimes, they care so much that they snap and start wildly swinging lumber after getting ejected and maybe accidentally clip a linesman, as was the case for Simon Kubicek of the Norfolk Admirals, the ECHL affiliate of the NHL's Winnipeg Jets and AHL's Manitoba Moose.

Bleacher Report shared some video of the incident which happened last Friday late in a game between the Admirals and the Adirondack Thunder (affiliate of the New Jersey Devils and Utica Devils).

Kubicek was whistled for holding with just under five minutes left in a close 5-4 game. As the announcers noted in the clip, he was involved in the "action" all night and was involved in even more action after he started flipping out in the sin bin.

So, the refs handed him a 10-minute misconduct and a zebra escort to an early shower.

However, Kubicek was still incensed and started swinging his stick as he left the ice, and it looked like he clipped a linesman in the process.

Yeah, that's not going to go over too well, even if it was unintentional.

Maybe, Kubicek wasn't in the best mood that day. While the 22-year-old Czech has spent the overwhelming majority of the year in Norfolk, according to the ECHL's transaction report from the day, Kubicek had just been sent down to Norfolk from Manitoba.

This happened in the first of three games the Admirals and Thunder played last weekend, and believe it or not, Kubicek wasn't suspended for this.

In fact, he appeared in the next two games on Saturday and Sunday, both of which were won by the Admirals.

That's so old school, I love it. The dude flips out, gets the gate, and shows up the next night like nothing happened.

You've just gotta love minor league hockey…