Bruins’ fan gets attacked and beaten by Avalanche fans!

Last week, the Boston Bruins were in Colorado to face the Avalanche right before the All-Star Break. It was a tight and exciting game as the Avalanche stunned the Bruins with a dramatic rally to earn their 17th straight home victory thanks to a 4-3 overtime win.

A lot happened in the game: Colorado was forced to push without star player Nathan MacKinnon to a bloody injury in the first period after colliding with Taylor Hall.

It was tense all game long. But unfortunately, the tension did not dropped in the parking lot after the contest as a Bruins’ fan, who is gay, was the victim of an alleged anti-gay hate crime when three men who supported the opposing team kicked and punched him after a game while shouting anti-gay slurs at him.

This is horrible. The news was reported by Denver 7, who interviewed the poor man Caiden Shaw, who lives in Colorado and simply attended the game to support his favourite team, the Bruins.

The attack left him injured and stunned about the hate people can feel for someone with a different sexual orientation.

“It makes me think back to that younger kid whenever I didn’t want to come out to fully be myself, and the reasons why you don’t do that, or why you’re scared to,” Shaw told Denver7 News.

As he left the Ball Arena in Denver, Shaw was approached by three Avalanche fans.

“At first, it was more of a hockey banter type of thing from them. ‘Oh you lost,’ that type of thing,” he explained. “I remember saying something along the lines of, ‘We’ll get you next time.’”

However, things got heated and the three men started shouting “aggressive homophobic slurs.” One of the men got in Shaw’s face and said, “You can’t take this, faggot.”

Shaw recalls attempting to push one of the man to get out of his way because he was afraid. But the physical attack began.

“From there, they tackled me to the ground and were calling me faggot, gay,” he said. “My head was in my arms, and I was kind of in a ball while they were kicking me and punching me.”

Shaw sustained knee injuries, bruising on his legs and arms, and a knot in the back of his head. But he said the psychological damage is the worst outcome. As he left his home town in the South for Denver to escape that kind of homophobia, now he doesn’t feel safe anymore.

The Denver Police Department has confirmed that their Bias Motivated Crime Unit is investigating the attack but did not specify if it was caught on surveillance footage.