After finishing their 2 p.m. game at Holiday Twin Rinks in Cheektowaga on Wednesday, some of the players on the Amherst Red Knights hockey team were not feeling well.
The 8-year-old players were lethargic and didn’t want to play in their next game at 5:45 p.m., said Jay Calabrese, team manager and coach of the Red Knights.
“The boys just didn’t seem like themselves,” he said.
Parents thought that, maybe, their children were tired from playing, and took them home or out to get some food before the next game in their tournament.
Calabrese ate with his son and some of the other parents and players and noticed that the boys were feeling better. But after the team returned to the rink, the players were again not feeling well.
Then, during the middle of the second period of their game, the referee decided to cancel it because players on the other team were vomiting, Calabrese said.
It was not until first responders showed up to the rink as Calabrese and his team were leaving that he knew something was wrong at the facility.
“That’s when you start to say, ‘Holy smokes. Something’s going on here,’ ” Calabrese said.
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