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Individuals involved Patrice Cormier and Mikael Tam

• Patrice Cormier viciously elbowed Mikael Tam and caused him to convulse on the ice

• Mikael Tam was in the hospital for 2 days because of trauma to the brain

• The two hockey players played in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL)

• Mikael Tam is 18 years old and Patrice Cormier is 19 years old

• Mikael Tam is part of the Quebec Remparts and Patrice Cormier is Rouyn-Noranda Huskies

• Patrice Cormier was supposed to be drafted for the NHL New Jersey Devils (NJD) but everything was put on hold after the incident

• Ramparts Coach, Patrick Roy calls for Cormier to be banned from the QMJHL for life

• GM Lou Lamoriello of the New Jersey Devils feels that there was no reason for Patrice Cormier to be suspended or for there to be any legal action for his draft pick's hit

• Patrice Roberts is 6’2, weight 205 pounds, born in Monction, NB on June 14, 1990

• Patrice Roberts was drafted for the NJD / 2008 NHL ENTRY DRAFT

• Mikael Tam is 5’10, weight 181 pounds, born in Quebec, PQ on April 16, 1991

• January 25, 2010 the QMJHL decided to suspend Patrice Cormier of the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies for the rest of the regular season and playoffs for his elbow on Mikael Tam of the Quebec Remparts

• Cormier was the captain Team Canada world’s junior league team in 2010 Saskatchewan

• The game took place on January 17, 2010

• Patrice Cormier has lost his appeal of a suspension for the remainder of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League season and playoffs for a violent hit on an opposing player.

• Cormier, a 19-year-old forward selected in the second round of the 2008 draft by New Jersey and traded to the Atlanta Thrashers in the Ilya Kovalchuk deal in early February

• Cormier appealed the penalty in a hearing before QMJHL commissioner Gilles Courteau on Feb. 11. Courteau announced his decision Friday.

• Cormier's team, the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies, can still appeal Courteau's ruling to an independent arbitrator.

• Mikael Tam lost several teeth, and suffered trauma to the brain and skull

• In the season Cormier scored 11 goals and 20 assists in 31 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League games this season and played just three games with the Huskies since he was acquired from the Rimouski Oceanic in a trade on Jan. 7

• Mikael has scored 10 goals and 12 assists in 47 games this season and is in his 3rd season with the Ramparts

• Patrice Cormier came off the bench during overtime of the game, skated hard to centre and caught an unsuspecting Tam with an apparent elbow to the head

• Remparts head coach Patrick Roy filed a complaint following the game with Quebec Provincial Police