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Wild prospect suspended two games for Grammys-related gay slur on Twitter

The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Show

LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 12: (L-R) Nate Mendel, Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters accept the award for “Best Rock Performance” onstage at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on February 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Minnesota Wild prospect Justin Fontaine isn’t just a little too green for the NHL.

His social media inexperience reared its ugly head this weekend, as the team handed him a two-game minor league suspension for using a gay slur in a Tweet, according to Michael Russo.

Fontaine made the offending Tweet regarding a Grammy nod for the Foo Fighters, which was then re-Tweeted by fellow teammate and Houston Aeros captain Jon DiSalvatore (screen shot via Bryan Reynolds of Hockey Wilderness).

(Warning: offensive language below.)

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Fontaine was quick to apologize for the misstep:

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Read more on the subject - including various responses and lessons that can be taken from it - at Hockey Wilderness, but here’s the Wild’s statement via Russo:

“Minnesota Sports and Entertainment (MSE) apologizes for the offensive slur that was posted by Justin Fontaine on Twitter last night,” the Wild said in a statement Monday night. “Fontaine has been suspended from playing in the next two games for the Houston Aeros.”

Russo points out that 12 Wild prospects and three NHL-level players (Justin Falk, Matt Kassian and Devin Setoguchi) are on Twitter. Something tells me that they’ll probably think twice before they write mean things about Dave Grohl’s meal ticket - among other subjects - in the future, then.