It's Hard To Fail This Often

With news breaking yesterday about another potential black eye for Hockey Canada via a 2003 incident involving sexual assault in Halifax, it would appear that Hockey Canada has a couple of serious problems in both enabling players to do whatever they please without consequences and covering up the abhorrent acts the players under their watch commit. Here we are again, though, as the 2003 incident is now in the public's eye, and, combined with the 2018 incident and the repeated payoffs that Hockey Canada admittedly made, it should be very clear that Hockey Canada needs to be dismantled with extreme prejudice.

The new allegations from 2003 are about a group sexual assault involving the 2003 Canadian World Junior hockey team. If Hockey Canada's reports are to be believed, it has already contacted Halifax Regional Police about the allegations and is opening its own independent investigation into the incident. Beyond that, TSN's Rick Westhead reported today that he has independently verified reports of a video that captured the Halifax incident with three different sources.

In short, this happened and there are receipts.

According to a Toronto Star report filed by Omar Mosleh - at this point, I must warn readers that this report is graphic in nature - a player makes a lewd comment to the camera holder, and the video of the sexual assault is recorded. I won't post any further details than that out of the respect for the victim, but I will say that this report is sickening.

Let's remember that while Hockey Canada is the one out here taking lumps for their cover-ups over the behaviour of the young men under their watch, they're not the only organizations who are guilty of boys behaving poorly while representing those organizations. The fact that these men continually find their way into hockey is rather terrifying, and it seems that no one was willing to stop them until it was too late. Maybe people didn't know or weren't aware of what was happening, but the damage was being done nonetheless.

This is, and always will be, a culture problem when people are put on pedestals and treated like celebrities despite them having some decent athletic ability. The culture, shown below in many examples, needs to change in a big way considering the vast number of incidents I've recorded. How does it change? I'm not sure exactly as it seems that no matter where hockey is played, someone is morally corrupt in the game. What I do know is that this many incidents seen means that the game is broken in a way that's hard to wrap one's mind around when one looks at all the incidents.

Here is the list of all the incidents of a sexual nature that have made the press in the hockey world over the last 35 years that I could find. I strongly warn you that some of the information and linked stories are both unsettling and graphic in nature, but it's long overdue that we start bringing out the receipts so we understand just how flawed this game and its engrained culture have become. Everything from here is PG-rated, but it's hard to stomach the sheer quantity of incidents I've listed below.

• The Kyle Beach incident with the Chicago Blackhawks is still fresh in the minds of a lot of people, and the cover-up of that sexual assault while enabling Brad Aldrich to continue to terrorize hockey players cost a number of people their jobs with the Chicago NHL team.
• A 1988 incident in Regina saw a 17 year-old boy sexually assaulted by Regina Pats assistant coach Bernie Lynch. He reported the assault in 2021, and Lynch turned himself in after having the charges levied against him. His trial was set for June 2022.
• A 1989 incident in Swift Current saw a 17-year-old girl assaulted by two members of the Memorial Cup champion Swift Current Broncos after an invitation to watch TV at her parents’ house became a non-consensual attack that left her bleeding profusely. In court, both players admitted that they had sex with the girl, but said the acts were consensual.
• Four Washington Capitals were investigated for raping and sodomizing a 17 year-old girl in Georgetown in 1990. The players included Dino Ciccarelli, Geoff Courtnall, Neil Sheehy, and Scott Stevens. A DC Superior Court grand jury voted not to indict the four Capitals players.
• A 1992 incident in Guelph saw three players charged with sexual assault after a 16-year-old girl told police she was forced to have sex with those players at the Guelph Storm's season-ending party. Shockingly, those charges were dropped on the eve of their trial.
• 1993 saw Robert "Bob" Dawson, a minor hockey coach in Winnipeg, commit sexual assault with teens on the team he coached while making child pornography involving them between 1993 and 1995. The complainants stepped forward in 2021 to accuse Dawson, police charged the man in September, and he committed suicide in October 2021.
• A 1995 incident in Saskatoon saw five members of the Saskatoon Blades investigated for sexual assault after a 16-year-old Indigenous girl said those players had sex with her while she was unconscious at a house party. When asked about it, CHL and WHL President Ed Chynoweth victim-blamed the girl, the incident was dismissed, and no charges were laid.
• A 1995 incident in Windsor saw three members of the Spitfires - including both Ed Jovanovski and Bill Bowler - face multiple sexual assault charges after a 24-year-old woman said she was sexually assaulted in her apartment and forced to have anal intercourse by the players. Charges were dismissed.
• 1996 saw NHLers Todd Harvey and Grant Marshall of the Dallas Stars among four men arrested and charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a 20-year-old at a Winnipeg house party. Despite searching, no criminal proceedings seem to have taken place.
• 1996 saw player agent David Frost charged with four counts of touching for a sexual purpose after three young women came forward with details of his assaults. Frost was acquitted on all four counts.
• 1996 saw Graham James finally arrested for multiple charges of sexual assault. James pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault involving more than 350 encounters with two underage players over a span of 10 years, and was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. He has since had more charges assigned to him, and his prison sentences have been extended.
• A 2000 incident in Barrie saw three members of the Colts - Nick Robinson, Aaron Power and Mike D'Allessandro - charged with the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl. Those charges are later withdrawn.
• Former Vernon hockey coach Keith Gordon Grant Chase sexually assaulted a 16 year-old girl in 2000 or 2001, and was found guilty of sexual assault on March 11, 2022. Sentencing will happen at a future date.
• Former NHLer Dan Carcillo alleges that "he was subject to, 'almost constant and repetitive abuse,' while playing for the Sting during the 2002-03 season", including sexual abuse. Carcillo and former WHLer Garrett Taylor launched a class-action lawsuit against the CHL, WHL, QMJHL, and OHL in 2020.
• A 2003 incident in Michigan saw minor hockey coach Charlie Jones charged with and convicted of felony attempted criminal sexual conduct after "he confessed to picking up two 15-year-old girls, supplying them with alcohol and raping one of them while she was unconscious. After pleading to a lesser “attempted” charge in a plea deal that spared the victim from testifying, Jones was sentenced to probation and ordered to register in Michigan as a sex offender for 25 years."
• There's now an investigation into a 2003 incident in Halifax with the Canadian World Junior team. Details are above, but no charges have been laid at this time.
• 2005 saw three NHL players - Kristian Huselius of the Florida Panthers, Andreas Lilja of the Nashville Predators, and Henrik Tallinder of the Buffalo Sabres - accused of gang sexual assault of a 22-year-old in a hotel room in Sweden. Prosecutors found "there was no evidence they forced the woman to have sex".
• A 2005 incident in Duluth, Minnesota saw UMD Bulldogs Blair Noel LeFebvre charged with sexual assault after assaulting a female UMD student in her home. LeFebvre opted for a plea deal in which he pled guilty to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, reducing his sentence to two years' probation, a psychological-sexual social evaluation, and registering as a sex offender.
• A 2006 incident in Victoria saw members from the ECHL's Salmon Kings charged with sexual assault after assaulting a University of Victoria student. The changes were dropped by prosecutors as "witnesses are all members of the hockey team and created an obstacle to accurately and fully investigating the case."
• A 2006 incident in Newport Beach saw Anaheim goaltending prospect David McKee charged with rape of an unconscious person and one felony count of rape by intoxication after McKee and a 25 year-old woman went back to her apartment after a night of drinking. McKee allegedly entered the woman's bedroom around 4:15am and raped her while she was unconscious. Charges were dismissed after jurors were deadlocked at 11-1.
• A 2006 incident in Port Alberni, BC saw Harrison Zolnierczyk and Bradley Harding of the BCHL's Bulldogs plead guilty after secretly filming Harding's 17 year-old girlfriend performing oral sex and posting the video online. Zolnierczyk received a three-year conditional discharge.
• A 2008 incident in Albany saw Robert "Bobby" Hughes of the AHL's River Rats charged with committing a first-degree sexual assault. He first denied the incident happened until DNA evidence was produced, and then told his ex-roommate that "it would be 'better off' if he did not testify at Hughes' sodomy trial". Hughes was eventually acquitted.
• A 2009 incident at Brock University saw goaltender Mark Yetman charged with two counts each of choking, threatening, and sexual assault. The particularly violent assault netted him two years less a day for the two counts of sexual assault, but he was found not guilty for choking and threatening. He added a third sexual assault charge in 2010 to his rap sheet that netted him three years in jail after sexual assaulting a 19-year-old student while she slept.
• An incident in Taylor, Michigan saw Grosse Pointe South High School hockey coach Robert Bopp charged with three counts each of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and child sexually abusive activity after being charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy. Bopp was found guilty of the sexual assault on the teenage boy and sentenced to 17.5 years in prison. He also was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the child pornography charges.
• A 2009 incident in Toronto saw hockey coach Lorne Rappaport charged with two counts of sexual assault, sexual interference with a person under 16, sexual exploitation, and invitation to sexual touching after Rappaport allegedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old female victim he was coaching. Because the charges were levied against him in 2021, he awaits a trial.
• A 2010 incident at Mercyhurst College saw forward Kyle Just and goaltender Jordan Tibbett charged charged with sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, and indecent assault after sexually assaulting a woman and forcing her to perform a sex act. Both were found not guilty and immediately reinstated to the hockey team after being suspended for nearly one year.
• A 2010 incident in Washington, DC saw former NHL player-turned-coach Mark Hardy charged with felony fourth-degree sexual abuse after putting his hand down his 21 year-old daughter's shorts and touching her genital area after a night of drinking. The charges were dismissed.
• A 2011 incident at Boston University saw top scorer Corey Trevino plead guilty to assault and battery charges and sentenced to to two years of probation after forcing himself on a woman. Trevino was removed from the Terriers hockey team after his arrest.
• A 2011 incident in Ann Arbor saw former NHLer Reid Boucher charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct after he, as a 17 year-old, assaulted a 12-year-old girl whose family hosted him as a billet family. Boucher took a plea deal and pled guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct against a minor, meaning he may not face jail time or have the charge appear on his record based on the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act (HYTA).
• A 2012 incident in Sault Ste. Marie saw three members of the Greyhounds - Nick Cousins, Andrew Fritsch, and Mark Pettachio - charged with sexual assault. Charges were withdrawn on the condition that a peace bond be upheld between the three players and the complainant, and the three players "do not communicate directly or indirectly with the complainant, and are not to be within 500 metres of the complainant's residence."
• A 2012 incident at Boston University saw defenceman Max Nicastro charged with sexual assault. Prosecutors dropped the case due to insufficient evidence. NiCastro had withdrawn as a student at Boston University following his arrest.
• A 2012 incident in Los Angeles saw Kings defender Drew Doughty charged with sexual assault after a woman he knew claimed he raped her in a cab. The charges were dropped after prosecutors cited insufficient evidence.
• A 2012 incident in Texas saw former Dallas Stars forward Mike Ribeiro charged with sexual assault by the nanny of his children. They reached an agreement on a settlement in the case.
• A 2013 incident in Huntsville saw University of Alabama-Huntsville defenceman Lasse Uusivirta charged with sexual assault after raping an 18-year-old female student in his dorm. After admitting to the crime, Uusivirta fled the US, returning back to Finland, and the charges remain in effect if he returns to the US.
• A 2013 incident in Duluth, Georgia saw Orlando Solar Bears netminder Zoltan Hetenyi arrested on three counts of sexual battery after twice grabbing a waitress's buttocks with two hands and then grabbed her breasts while reportedly showing off his glove and blocker hands. The Solar Bears dropped him from their roster, and it appears that he returned to Europe where he signed with Liiga's Taapara the following season. It appears he didn't make his court appearance.
• A 2013 incident in Windsor saw Spitfires forward Ben Johnson charged with sexual assault for raping a 16-year-old girl in the women's washroom of the now-defunct downtown nightclub Mynt. Johnson was sentenced to three years in prison. Johnson, it should be noted, was found not guilty on a second charge of sexual assault at a different nightclub in the same year.
• A 2013 incident saw Portland Pirates assistant coach Michael Minard plead no contest to sexual misconduct after sending a 13 year-old girl a an image of his genitals. He was jailed for 60 days, fired from his position, and placed on Maine's Sex Offenders Registry for ten years.
• An incident in Straford saw GOJHL Cullitons forward Mitchell Vandergunst charged with two counts of sexually assaulting a woman. Vandergunst was found guilty and sentenced to a one-year jail sentence plus two years of probation, but the Ontario Superior Court overturned the conviction as the judge ruled "there were inconsistencies with the woman's testimony on the witness stand". It appears Vandergunst never had a second trial as his hockey career remained intact for the next few seasons.
• A 2014 incident in Quebec City saw four members of the Gatineau Olympiques charged with sexual assault after a complainant came forward. The case is eventually dropped.
• A 2014 incident in Thunder Bay saw several members of the University of Ottawa men's hockey team sexually assault a woman. Guillaume Donovan and David Foucher were formally charged with sexual assault, but were acquitted. The GeeGees men's hockey team were suspended for the year, but do not participate in OUA hockey for two years while the university re-organized the team after the incident.
• A 2014 incident in Lincoln saw Thomas Carey and Brandon Smith of the USHL's Stars charged with using a minor in a sexual performance and possessing and distributing child pornography after they recorded themselves having sex with a 15 year-old girl, and then distributed the video and pictures to friends on the team and in other states. Both players were suspended from the team, and they opted to take a plea deal as they pled guilty to the child pornography charges. Both men spent 45 days in jail, received 10 years of supervised probation, and Carey was required to take sex offender counseling. Part of the plea deal also sees that the two players are not allowed to blame the victim for the outcome.
• A 2014 incident in Fitchburg, Massachusetts saw three members of the Fitchburg State University men's hockey team charged with sexual assault after an alleged off-campus sexual assault. All three men were "barred from attending classes and participating in athletics pending the police investigation". No other details about the case could be found.
• A 2014 incident in Gatineau saw several players of the Olympiques inside a Boston Pizza bathroom with an intoxicated woman. While no crimes were formally alleged, Gatineau police ultimately did not lay charges after reports of the sexual misconduct.
• A 2014 incident in Nipawin saw SJHL Hawks forward Garrett Dunlop charged with sexual assault and sexual interference after two alleged sexual encounters with a girl under the age of 16 after kissing a 16 year-old girl in his vehicle. Dunlop was acquitted.
• A 2014 incident in St. Louis saw Ian Mackie, a St. Louis County minor hockey coach, charged with performing sex acts with one minor and attempting to persuade another to send him nude pictures - both being child pornography charges. Mackie pled guilty and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
• An incident in Kingston saw long-time OHL billet Neil Joynt charged with indecent assault and sexual assault against three boys in the 1980s. Joynt was found not guilty on four charges he faced.
• A 2015 incident in Cobourg, Ontario saw team members of the Cougars Junior A team charged with sexual assault during a house party. No charges were laid after an investigation.
• A 2015 incident in Fairbanks saw University of Alaska-Fairbanks forward Nolan Youngmun charged with first and second degree sexual assault after he raped a woman in her apartment. He was eventually found not guilty, but there is a new sexual assault allegation from 2013 whose resolution could not be found.
• Boston College hockey player Tori Sullivan is sexually assaulted by a Boston College football player in 2015. A lack of support from and victim-blaming from her team and university caused Sullivan to transfer out of Boston College in 2017 before she ultimately reported the assault in 2022. She requested that Boston College investigate the incident, but the university denied that request, stating "they cannot compel the alleged perpetrator to testify since he is no longer a student."
• A 2015 incident in Peterborough saw former Peterborough minor hockey coach Michael McCormick charged with sexual exploitation, sexual assault, making sexually explicit material available to a child, communicating with a person under the age of 18 for sexual purposes, and possession of child pornography after he was allegedly involved in an inappropriate relationship with a 16 or 17 year-old female victim. McCormick was found not guilty on all charges.
• A 2015 incident in Kingston saw Gananoque Islanders defenceman Chance Macdonald charged with common assault after sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at a party. Macdonald pled guilty to the single common assault charge and served 88 days in jail on weekends.
• A 2015 incident in Buffalo saw Patrick Kane accused of raping a woman he met at a Buffalo bar. The charges were dropped after prosecutors found that the evidence did "not sufficiently substantiate the complainant's allegation that she was raped by Patrick Kane".
• A 2016 incident in Oakville, Ontario saw minor hockey coach Jared Gould charged with two counts of invitation to sexual touching, two counts of indecent act, two counts of making sexually explicit material available to persons under 16 years, and one count of uttering threats. Police allege the victims are males under the age of 16 with one victim being part of the hockey association. He pleaded guilty through a plea bargain to one count of indecent act while the other charges were withdrawn. This won't be the last time Gould is on this list.
• A 2016 incident in Sudbury saw Laurentian University forward Blake Luscombe charged with sexual assault in an off-campus incident. Charges were withdrawn in the case.
• In 2016, complainants reported that Walter Ferinden, a former minor hockey coach in Delaware, had sexually abused them in the late 1980s and early 1990s which coaching. Ferinden, facing more than a dozen charges of second-degree unlawful sexual contact, pled guilty to two counts of the charges, and was sentenced to three years in prison.
• A 2016 incident in Buffalo saw Evander Kane accused of sexual assault against a woman he had met. No charges were brought by Buffalo police following their investigation of the incident.
• A 2017 incident in Vancouver saw Canucks forward Jake Virtanen charged with sexual assault after pinning her down in the hotel room and assaulting her. The case is currently before the courts.
• A 2017 incident in Canton, Michigan saw Canton High School assistant boys varsity hockey coach Eric Locke charged with three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct after having an an ongoing relationship with a girl that started when the girl was 15. He pled guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct, and was sentenced to two years probation under HYTA and does not have to register as a sex offender.
• Incidents between 2017 and 2018 saw Christopher Prew charged with one count of aggravated rape of a child with an age difference greater than 10 years, 14 counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of 14, and one count of attempted indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of 14 which coaching youth hockey in Massachusetts. He pled guilty to 16 charges of child sexual assault, was sentenced to 13 to 15 years in state prison followed by ten years of probation that includes a long list of conditions.
• The 2018 incident in London, Ontario involving eight players from the CHL and the Canadian World Junior team has been re-opened for a new investigation.
• A 2018 incident in Providence saw then-AHL Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins coach John "Clark" Donatelli charged with sexual assault after allegedly groping the victim and sticking his hands down her pants while they were attempting to get a ride back to their hotel. The victim, Erin Skalde, is the wife of former player Jarrod Skalde, and they reached a settlement with the Penguins.
• A 2018 investigation saw USA Hockey, the American College Hockey Association, and the Amateur Hockey Association of Illinois (AHAI) come under fire after Tom "Chico" Adrahtas, a Chicago-area coach, allegedly sexually abused several junior players and college players in the 1980s. The claims against Adrahtas were dismissed by a federal judge, but he did recommend that state courts hear the matter. No resolution has been found yet.
• A 2018 incident in Big Rapids, Michigan saw Ferris State hockey player Darren Smith charged with three counts of criminal sexual conduct including first-degree with injury to an incapacitated person after he assaulted a woman at an off-campus location. In a rather open article about her assault penned about Riley Blair, Smith's victim,Smith reportedly took a plea deal that included Michigan Holmes Youth Trainee Act protections, making all of the court records from the case and his sentencing sealed, that saw him serve just eight months in prison for his crimes.
• A 2018 incident in Kamloops saw goaltender Connor Neurauter charged with sexual interference and possession of child pornography after he allegedly had inappropriate contact with a 13 year-old girl. He took a plea deal and pled guilty to one count of sexual interference with a person under 16. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail and two years on probation. He is prohibited from contacting his victims or being in the presence of anyone under 16 without supervision, and was ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
• Jared Gould returns to the list in 2019 after being charged with three counts of luring a child, three counts of making sexually explicit material available to a child, two counts of possession of child pornography, invitation to sexual touching, making child pornography and three counts of failure to comply with a probation order that stemmed from "multiple complaints, from multiple parents, from multiple jurisdictions regarding their children communicating with a male that they'd met on various online chat platforms, specifically those geared towards hockey". It would appear his new charges are still awaiting a trial.
• A 2019 incident in Rosthern, Saskatchewan saw Andrew Gordon Stevenson charged with sexual assault and sexual interference against a child under 16 while working with the Rosthern Minor Hockey Association. A second set of charges was brought about due to second incident in 2021. His case goes before the courts in September 2022.
• 2019 saw former Montreal minor hockey coach Francois "Frank" Lamarre charged with gross indecency, indecent exposure, sexual assault, sexual touching and invitation to sexual touching involving four alleged victims that occurred between 1972 and 1997. He pled not guilty to the charges, but died in 2020 before his trial could be completed. A judge awarded $11 million to his victims from his estate.
• Former QMJHL Sherbrooke Phoenix forward Yaroslav Alexeyev told Russian news site Sport Express of hazing, abuse, and sexual assualts that he suffered at the hands of teammates and billets including veteran players sodomizing rookies with a broomstick. As far as the reporting went, nothing happened to anyone from the Phoenix nor was an investigation into the allegations done.
• A 2020 incident in Sweden saw Logan Mailloux charged with defamation and offensive photography as he secretly recorded the victim without her consent or knowledge while engaging in oral sex. He was required to pay a fine in Sweden for these charges.
• A 2020 incident in Littleton saw Colorado Select Girls Hockey Association director of hockey operations and player development Jesse Davis charged with sexual assault and contributing to the delinquency of a minor after assaulting "a juvenile who had been staying on his property". The charges are pending in his case.
• A 2021 incident in San Jose saw Evander Kane who had allegedly sexually assaulted and committed domestic violence towards his estranged wife. The allegations are making their way through the legal system as part of the Kanes' divorce proceedings.
• A 2021 incident in Kalamazoo saw Western Michigan University captain Paul Washe charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct after a fellow WMU student claimed he assaulted her. He has been suspended from the team while the investigation continues.
• A 2021 incident in Lac-Beauport, Quebec saw two members of the QMJHL Victoriaville Tigres - Nicolas Daigle and Massimo Siciliano - charged with sexual assault and filming the alleged attack a teenage girl in Lac-Beauport in June. Daigle was charged for sharing images of the alleged victim. Both have been suspended indefinitely by the QMJHL.
• A 2021 incident in Wapole, Massachusetts saw Rodman Arena owner Robert Barletta charged with sexual assault with intent to rape a female coach at a hockey camp held at his arena. Charges are pending against Barletta as he awaits a trial after pleading not guilty.
• A 2021 incident in West Chester, Pennsylvania saw West Chester University hockey player Richard Oastler Mullineaux V charged with rape by forcible compulsion, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, indecent assault, and false imprisonment after raping a woman at a Halloween party. He awaits trial.
• 2022 saw York region police charge Whitchurch-Stouffville hockey coach Kelvin Cheuk-Ho Lee with multiple charges in connection with sexual offences committed against children between 2016 and 2022. His charges are still pending as he awaits a trial.
• A 2022 incident in Reno saw three memebers of the Senior A club Santa Rosa Growlers - Josiah Nikkel, Dominic Jones and Moses Matthews - arrested for and charged with sexual assault. Matthews also faces charges for capturing an image of someone's private area and unlawful dissemination of intimate images. The victim alleges that "they held her down while one recorded the orchestrated assault". The three men reportedly had a jury trial set for June 27.
• A 2022 civil suit in Nevada saw Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz named as one of the men who may have paid an underage ballerina $75,000 for "sexual favours" eight years ago. Charges were withdrawn after it was proven the ballerina was 18, not 17 as alleged.

If you made it this far, you probably need a stiff drink after reading about all the incidents occurring at all the different levels of hockey. It doesn't matter if it's minor hockey, the NHL, or stops in between, the system is broken in such a malignant way that these are only the stories being reported. Like an iceberg, these are the ten percent seen above the surface of the water that made it to a reporter, and I highly suspect the ninety percent hiding below the surface should not only be heard, but encouraged to step forward to tell their stories.

This is not ok in any way, shape, or form. This is as far from ok as one can possibly get when totalling up the damage done in the incidents listed above, and there are still unknown horrors within the game that I didn't list - domestic abuse, harrassment of all sorts, racism, hazing, and other morally-corrupt actions.

There's no other way to say this, but Hockey Canada's latest problems are just a bigger target to hit for people who want to throw moral judgment at them. As I've shown, these sexual assaults and abuses happen in one's own backyard, so it might be wise to stop pointing fingers and, instead, start cleaning up the game.

Hockey is broken. The evidence is everywhere.

Until next time, keep your sticks on the ice!