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Clearly, someone cared.
The Ontario Hockey League slapped the Barrie Colts with a $15,000 fine for the club’s bizarre responses during a post-game news conference earlier this week.
On Monday night, following the team’s Game 7 Eastern Conference championship-clinching win over the Brantford Bulldogs, Colts coach Dylan Smoskowitz and co-captain Kashawn Aitcheson were unusually tight-lipped.
Instead of answering reporters' questions about the emotional and unlikely victory, they both repeated the same line — “no one cares, work harder” — to each question posed to them.
The footage quickly went viral and prompted strong reactions among hockey fans and media alike.
On Tuesday, while on TSN 1050's Overdrive, Smoskowitz apologized for his actions.
“It’s a decision I regretted immediately,” he said. “It took away from a really, really good game and a really, really good series."
Read Brian Smiley's take on the situation in the Brantford Expositor, and more about the league's disciplinary action in the Toronto Sun.
