you never know when a moron will lose his shit.
the best you can hope for is that people will be respectful and if they get violent then the league kicks them out. if the league is consistently strict then people will be more likely to behave.
i play in the ASHL in etobicoke. it's decent. not a lot of dirty play, and fighting gets you kicked out.
our first game of this season, some guy was doing all sorts of spinnerama dipsydoodle moves throught the game. then he ends up spinning around and our d man couldn't tell which way he was going and ends up accidentally bumping the guy into the boards. it looked like a hit from behind but only cause the guy was doing a 360 and changed direction as he got bumped.
so buddy gets up and starts POUNDING on our guy, knocks him to the ground and keeps pounding away at the back of his head. it was madness, the refs just stood back. i tried to jump in to pull the psycho off but a guy from the other team held me back "don't do it, you're the third man, you'll get kicked out of the league."
anyway the guy got kicked out of the league. even his own teamates told us the guy was nuts.
it just occured to me that for a minimal cost the leagues could put in a couple of cameras on each rink and record games just in case they have to review it if things get out of hand.
i play co-ed soccer and can't stand it when guys get unnecesarrily rough. on my last team there was one guy who would bitch and whine if the other team so much as layed a finger on him. he would also whine if we were getting blown out and the other team kept scoring. yet, he'd get rough even with the girls on the other team, and he'd be the first to try and get a hat trick if we were blowing another team out.
on my current soccer team there's one guy who's sucks, gets rough with people and bitches at the ref. we got a pretty serious warning about him. i hope the team decides to kick him off.