Lawsuit over ice time is dropped
By Paul L eighton Staff Writer

MIDDLETON — A lawsuit over ice time at the Essex Sports Center has been dropped.

The Middlesex Islanders, a junior hockey program that had accused the rink of illegally taking away its ice time, filed a notice of voluntary dismissal of the case in Salem Superior Court on Thursday.

Middlesex Islanders president Richard Gallant and his attorneys did not return messages seeking comment about why they dropped the case.

The lawsuit claimed that the head of a competing junior hockey program, who had been hired by Essex Sports Center to schedule ice time, took away time from the Islanders in order to use it for his own program.

The scheduler, Christopher Nagy, operates the North Suburban Wings hockey program, which the lawsuit said competes with the Islanders for players and ice time. Nagy declined to comment on why the Islanders dropped the case.

Or he has no leg to stand on and dropped the ball...

in other news Christopher Nagy has never been seen again and is reported missing....foul play is not ruled out. How dare he challenge the great one RG. We were all hoping he would succeed.

hard to lose, with the contract on your side

He did succeed!

RG lost for sure, crap ice times being given out...

If true, I'd better get a pro-rated refund for the clinic my bender is doing with him....

Call me Francis again I kill yea!!

Case dropped....MXI has 19 weekday hours at Essex..Which is crazy..Current scheduler cut MXI to 13, taking away 6 hours. MXI cried. MXI was returned 2 of 6 hours lost, scheduler awarded monetary damages for scheduling time/money lost. Previous dysfunctional owners of Essex to blame. Nothing to see here. RG did same to local youth/HS programs when he took over the sheets last year. Karma sux Pooooorrr MXI

If you only new what really went on. Priceless

Won't be sending my kid to BBN!!!

You were not invited. Actually they may need a JV water boy if be interested.