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This video isn't as surprising as the fact that we don't see more videos like it. When my six-year-old nephew played football, every down was a running play and eleven late hits. Boys will be boys, know what I mean?

I guess the old adage rings true. You go to a fight, and a hockey game breaks out.

This was the intermission of the Hershey Bears’ AHL game against the Cleveland Monsters. As the grown-ups went to the locker room to take a break, they let the mites youth hockey league play on the ice. That's when all out pandimonium errupted. One eight-year-old swung on another eight-year-old. That kid's enforcer skated up to have his boy's back. The rest of the teams started to throw hands. There was a flying body splash. And the adults in the crowd cheered along, because that's what you do at a hockey game. As long as no one gets hurt, seeing the lil'est battle royal is adorable.

Though the Atlantic Amateur Hockey Association (AAHA) didn't think so:

The AAHA said Sunday in its statement that “appropriate disciplinary action will be taken against those players and team officials involved with the staged fight” after an investigation. The AAHA statement noted that neither it nor USA Hockey sanctioned the Bears’ Mites On Ice Game on Saturday.

In addition to the AAHA’s investigation, the Central Penn youth club pledged an “internal review to fully understand the circumstances surrounding the incident” in a statement posted to its Facebook page.

The circumstances? Boys will be boys. There. I just concluded your investigation for you.

I'm confused over the use of the word "staged." Are they saying the fight was like professional wrestling? Even if that was the plan, have you ever seen eight-year-old boys play WWE? "Follow the script" does not compute. If you tell Little Timmy and Little Bobby to pretend to fight, the pretend fight will stop after the second punch.

Methinks this is just to pretend to do something about it. Someone's mother must have complained, so they have to do an "investigation" to shut her up. Guarantee everyone who works for the AAHA and Central Penn was sharing this video in the dad's group chat.

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