A Sexual Assault Case Shakes Hockey’s Upper Echelon in Canada
- National body used player fees to settle sex-misconduct cases
- Lawmakers call for changes to Hockey Canada executive, board
Scotiabank was the first major corporation to announce it would pull back sponsorship of Hockey Canada in response to the organization’s handling of a sexual-assault investigation into players.
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Canada defeated Sweden to win the world junior hockey championship in January 2018, a victory watched by a huge audience in a hockey-obsessed country.
Five months later, members of that celebrated team attended a charity event in an Ontario city, where they allegedly sexually assaulted a young woman in a hotel room. The accusation and the cover-up are now shaking the upper echelons of hockey in Canada.