A Mites on Ice event featuring players from a Lancaster area youth hockey club devolved into a brawl between players between periods of a Hershey Bears game on Saturday.
The Hershey Bears, like many hockey teams, feature Mites on Ice events in which youth hockey players compete against each other between periods of the game. However, on Saturday during an AHL contest between the Bears and the Cleveland Monsters at Giant Center, intermission entertainment turned into a melee between players of the Central Penn Panthers Youth Ice Hockey Club.
Videos posted to social media show players from the club’s 8U team shoving each other onto the ice and throwing wild punches at both teammates and opposing players. Both teams during the intermission game were made up of Central Penn Panthers players.
Hershey’s mites on ice game went off the rails again. 😂
Team White’s tiny but heavily padded goalie didn’t tend the goal and instead began cleaning house in a huge brawl.
🎥: @lhollenbach515 pic.twitter.com/dBunnD8S36
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) January 11, 2026
International sports media, including Barstool Sports and Fox Sports Australia, had shared footage of the fight by Sunday morning.
The club, based out of the Regency Sportsrink in East Hempfield Township, has been fielding youth hockey teams for over 30 years with age groups ranging from 4 to 18, according to their website.
On Sunday, the club issued a statement via social media, stating that the incident was now under an internal review.
“At this time, we believe it is important to allow this process to take place before drawing conclusions,” club officials wrote in their statement. “We appreciate the patience and understanding of our families, partners, and community as we work through this matter.”
The Atlantic Amateur Hockey Association, the governing body for the regional affiliate of USA Hockey, said it was aware that an incident took place during Saturday’s intermission game and would be investigating the matter. The Atlantic Amateur Hockey Association called it a staged fight.
Atlantic Amateur Hockey Association officials said disciplinary action would be taken against the players and team officials involved in the fight and that the intermission game had not been sanctioned by their organization or USA Hockey.
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