A West Island Pee Wee hockey coach, has been sidelined after giving his kids a major league punishment.
Lac Saint Louis hockey coach Louis Isabella forced his AAA PeeWee hockey team to do anywhere between 100 to 500 pushups after losing a game.
Former Montreal Canadian Sergio Momesso says he remembers losing games as a junior and facing much of the same.
"We were heading home from a game, and the coach said put your stuff on," he says. "We got back on the ice and he skated us for almost an hour at 4 in the morning because we played poorly."
The difference he says is that he was 17 or 18, not a preteen.
"There is a line where they go too far especially if you're doing that to kids who are 11 or 12 years old" he says.
Too nervous about her son's place in the league to record an interview, a hockey parent says they saw pictures of the children's arms which were inflamed from the work, a few kids had to miss school and visit doctors after the practice.
Lac St Louis Midget coach John Goyens says the club doesn't support such extreme coaching tactics.
"We weren't in agreement with this approach, he made a mistake in judgement in our view," says Goyen. "Just like players make mistakes, parents makes mistakes, coaches make mistakes."
Alexander Zeppili played under coach Isabella as a Pee Wee and says the tough tactics were worth it.
"Ive played for him, and if he told me to skate I would skate," says Zeppilli. "We did skating drills where kids collapsed on the ice, but no one said a word, we were all better afterwards."
Isabella has been suspended temporarily from coaching with the club.