A player in the QMJHL who fights will be issued a game misconduct and suspended for a game for each subsequent fight, commissioner Mario Cecchini announced on Friday.

The announcement comes after the league’s member assembly “endorsed a ban on fighting,” in March.

Officially, the QMJHL approved the:

1. Addition of a game misconduct penalty for any player involved in a fight;
2. Addition of an automatic one-game suspension for any player declared the instigator of a fight;
3. Addition of a minimum two-game automatic suspension for any player identified as the aggressor;
4. In addition to the game misconduct, an automatic one-game suspension will be imposed once a player has reached his second fight, rather than his third.

“We are taking a tremendous stride towards player safety,” Cecchini said in a press conference Friday, ahead of the league’s draft.

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The New York Mets are reeling.

With Thursday night’s walk-off loss to the Atlanta Braves, they suffered a sweep at the hands of their division rivals and fell to 8.5 games back of first place in the National League East.

Each loss from this series had one shocking constant.

In all three games, the Mets held a lead of three runs or more and ultimately squandered it on their way to three soul-crushing losses.

The Mets are now three games below the .500 mark.

This is the first time something like this has ever happened in Mets franchise history.

SNY, the TV home of the Mets pointed out this fact on Twitter.

For the first time in the history of the Mets franchise, they have lost 3 consecutive games in which they've held a 3-run lead in each game. pic.twitter.com/HkoSb5fum0

— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) June 9, 2023

The Mets were ahead by a score of 10-6 in the bottom of the sixth inning.

However, the Braves chipped away and ultimately emerged victorious on Ozzie Albies’ walk-off home run in the 10th.

Atlanta won by a final score of 13-10.

The Mets have now lost six in a row.

Because of this loss, they were leapfrogged in the NL East by the surging Philadelphia Phillies and now sit in fourth place in the division.

It certainly has been a week to forget for the Mets.

Picked by many to win the NL East, the Mets have been a disappointment thus far with stars such as Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer struggling.

Fortunately, the Mets are only three games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL Wild Card race and will begin a series with the Bucs on Friday night at PNC Park.

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