An eight-year-old hockey player has been banned from a Quebec tournament for being "bigger and stronger" than his other competitors. Jared Murray, grand-nephew of Ottawa Senators coach Bryan Murray, is a four-foot-nine, 110-pound Grade 3 student registered as a novice B player with the Shawville Blackhawks. His team was 11-3-2 during the season, finishing fourth in the standings, and Murray recorded a staggering 51 goals in 17 games. But Hockey Outaouais officials have ruled that he is ineligible to play in the regional playdown tournament because of his size and strength. "They said that, basically, he was too strong to play with his team," Blackhawk's head coach Dan Duggan told Canada AM on Thursday. "I can't understand how they could say that the team was too strong as they finished fourth out of 20 teams."

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