Hockey players suspended over allegedly bullying teen girl to suicide.

A terrible tragedy in the hockey world has come to light, and now 3 young women may be facing the consequences of their allegedly reprehensible actions.

In August, a young woman named McKenna Brown took her own life in a horrible tragedy, one that her parents now claim was caused by vicious bullying from members of her very own hockey team. Hunter and Cheryl Brown are now speaking out about the suicide of their teenage daughter, one they believe a number of young girls on her team helped cause.

Recently the family appeared on an episode of Dr. Phil to share their story in the hopes that others might be saved by hearing McKenna's story, and it was there that Cheryl revealed how these young girls had organized a mass cyber-bullying campaign against their teammate and now former friend.

"They took that text, coupled it with all the other texts and information, and then began to mass distribute to an unknown number of teammates and friends and then proceeded to try and cancel her on social media," said Cheryl Brown.

Perhaps the most shocking part of this story is the rift between the teammates appears to have stemmed from a dispute over a boy, tragic to think that something so small in the grand scheme of things could lead to such a terrible and permanent act.

Hunter Brown knows that, criminally speaking, there will never be justice for what happened to his young daughter, however the understandably distraught father is hoping that sharing his story will prevent any other father from experiencing what he is currently going through.

"Cyber bullying is covered under the education code and can tie into ramifications at the school level... but it's not a criminal offense," said Hunter Brown.

"There's no legal ramifications for what happened," he added.

Thankfully the Browns are not alone in their quest for justice as several other members of their hockey team and their families were appalled to learn what had happened unbeknownst to them. According to Cheryl several complaints have been filed by those players and their families, complaints sent to both the school and the governing body overseeing the hockey program, the Lightning High School Hockey League.

As the name suggests the program has ties to the Tampa Bay Lightning organization and currently has high profile NHL figures like NHL executive Jay Feaster (LSHL President) and former NHLer Dave Andreychuk (LSHL Director) sitting on their board of directors. Thankfully the LSHL has acted quickly and now 3 of the 4 girls that the Brown's claim were responsible for this act of cyberbullying have officially been suspended from the team pending an ongoing investigation.

The family has called for a change to cyberbullying laws in Florida, and you can watch their full appearance on the Dr. Phil show in the video below.