Hockey mom runs on ice during youth league brawl (VIDEO)

Hockey referees will put up with a lot. It comes with the job. But step on their territory, like one Boston-area hockey mother did by going on the ice after a line brawl broke out and well, they won't take too kindly to that.

During a recent spring hockey game between teams called the Boston Raptors and Boston Tribes — the players look like they're in the 16-and-under bantam group — multiple fights broke out behind one of the nets. The referees were basically willing to let the fire burn itself out, so to speak. However, faster than you can Google Helen Lovejoy ("won't someone please think of the children?!"), a pink-jacketed mother sprinted on to the ice toward the fighting players. She would have to be wearing a pink jacket. One of the refs had to skate over and steer hear back to the stands. Give the mom credit, jogging in street footwear on ice is tricky and she was moving rather agilely.

Warning: some of the heckling is NSFW.

The details are very fragmented. You can imagine the woman's son will be razzed royally for that. To some extent, one can see someone would go Defcon-5 Momma Bear when she saw her teenage son might be pummelled. This was a youth league game, not junior hockey. The referees apparently decided their game cheque wasn't worth stepping in to break up the fights until the combatants got tired, but Mom was not having it.

The way one of the referees springs into action after espying the ice invader is also great. Of course, he had to do that because if she had fallen and struck her head on the ice, there would have been a major liability issue. But teenage boys' helmeted heads are fair game.

Neate Sager is a writer for Yahoo! Canada Sports. Contact him at neatesager@yahoo.ca and follow him on Twitter @neatebuzzthenet.