The St. John's Junior Hockey League is promising "severe suspensions" following "unacceptable" conduct on and off the ice during a junior hockey playoff game on Saturday night.

"It's something totally against what the league stands for," president Jim Hare told CBC News on Monday.

He described the behaviour at Saturday's game in St. John's as "disgusting" and "very disturbing."

Game 3 of the best-of-five quarter-final series between the league-leading St. John's Junior Caps and the last place Southern Shore Junior Breakers disintegrated into a donnybrook that had to be called off early in the third period because almost all Breakers players had been kicked out.

Oh, at least it’s not rape this time! Seems like an improvement.