The sport’s higher ranks brought before government hearings are not limited to these borders, as yesterday the CEO, chairman and chief governor of Hockey Canada was questioned by Canadian MPs about a settled lawsuit by a woman who claims she was gang raped by eight players during a Canadian Hockey golf game, including some from the 2018 World Junior team. The event named eight players, as well as the Hockey Federation of Canada (the junior hockey governing body), and Hockey Canada. Hockey Canada eventually settled the case on behalf of the other groups of defendants, without ever bothering to find out who the players were. Because Hockey Canada is funded by the government of Canada, the hearing aimed to find out whether public funds were used to pay in a fundamental way, but became a broader study of how to settle Canadian hockey problems by balloons and hockey in general. sexual assault. For a better overview, see this story on The Athletic.
Of course, Hockey Canada runsm Renney, Scott Smith and Dave Andrews did not have many answers. They said that there was an investigation conducted by Hockey Canada just a few days after the incident, but that the players were not required to cooperate and a few were not. This makes their entire code of conduct a farce, as has been pointed out to them. Smith also revealed that Hockey Canada has received one or two sexual assault allegations against players under their control, each year, for the past five or six years, which is too many. And it also makes you wonder how many people they don’t hear from each year, and this kind of handling wouldn’t make anyone more eager to report assaults.
As always, the officials have absolutely no idea how to deal with this sort of thing, some ridiculous nonsense would have been made if it hadn’t been offensive. Smith, again, said that Canadian Hockey “probably lags behind” on educational issues thanks to the pandemic. The problem is that this incident took place two years before the pandemic.
And it seems the players involved were educated enough to cover their tracks, if you read the horrifying and disgusting details of the case. They forced the victim to declare her sanity in front of the camera even though she was far from sober enough to consent, and forced her to go to the bathroom after trying to erase as much “evidence” as possible. They know where this is at the beginning. These are not ignorant boys who took things too far one drunken evening. This has been calculated. This is about more than educational endeavors.
As the story detailed above by Ian Mendes, Dan Robson, and Katie Strang, the problems in children’s hockey are deep and multi-layered and will take effort and time to address at the root. , if anyone has enough patience or time. While high school and college environments for sports like football, basketball, and baseball don’t exactly prevent sexual assault on campus, a major problem for hockey Student bridge is the only social interaction teen hockey players receive is in the hockey environment around other hockey players, on the ice rink or in the locker room.. never saw anyone else until it was time to go to the bar. The number of players around with nothing more than 7th grade education didn’t help either.
Hockey culture needs to be purified in so many areas, and most of it stems from its completely one-sided nature. It doesn’t know about social problems because it gets too caught up in itself, which only produces coaches and executives later down the line who come from upbringing in the sport. that sport. Where will ideas and tests come from?
Hockey Canada clearly thinks they can work things out by settling this case at the first checkpoint, without any investigation. Don’t worry about the NHL containing any more teeth. But, if there were any type of bearings, just as the Blackhawks thought the approach in the sand would save them, things with a lot of smell on people these days wouldn’t be able to hide.
They may be disappointed in the education and all-inclusive programs they enjoy, but the only thing these kids have are their hockey careers (they don’t get an education), and their respective child players. know that their hockey career will be over is the only thing that makes them pay attention to any programs and tutorials that Canadian Hockey wants to switch to, or pretend to want to switch to while in the limelight. discount. They know nothing else. Taking these names out and future names, and getting them out of hockey is the only way to get the majority of hockey players to notice. It’s the only language they speak, can be so sad. Hockey Canada stepping into the initial opportunity to cover for everyone will only make every junior player feel more invincible than they did. And that’s the problem.
