Clarenville Caribous defenceman Justin Pender is barred from entering the Danny Cleary Arena in Harbour Grace “indefinitely” after a shocking and violent off-ice confrontation with a CeeBees fan.

Surveillance video in the hallway outside the locker rooms show Pender, who had just been ejected from a chippy contest between the Caribous and CeeBees, throwing his broken stick at a group of CeeBees fans.

Most of the fans scatter, but one stands his ground, and that’s when Pender threw punches at the fan.

The facility is run by the town and Mayor Don Coombs says council decided that the event warranted decisive action. The fan is also barred from the stadium for several weeks.

Coombs says the town is not calling police, that’s something they’ll leave to those involved.

Coombs already told the Caribous general manager that they will not be getting the police involved.

Questions have also been raised about security. Coombs says security is provided by the CeeBees, but he’s not sure what difference that might have made.

He believes it was a matter between the fan and the player, and he’s not sure security would have made a difference.