If major junior hockey doesn\u0027t see a moral imperative for reform, an economic one will have to do
Indeed, that would seem to be minimum conceivable change. Hockey Canada claims not to know who the eight players involved were, which is perhaps believable in a legal sense: If they don’t have proof, they can’t be pointing fingers in public. But they should certainly know who refused to talk to the lawyers. And they shouldn’t be letting them wear the Team Canada sweater ever again — ideally as a moral imperative, but an economic one might work just as well.
Every time you allow yourself to hope things have gotten better since Graham James and David Frost and the other notorious hockey psychos screwed up young men’s lives in bulk, something more recent drops with a mighty crash. The class-action lawsuit led by former NHLers Daniel Carcillo and Garrett Taylor,, alleges all manner of horrifying abuse from what normal people would call child neglect to serious sexual and physical assault at the hands of players and coaches.
Clearly there is nothing unique about hockey, or sports in general, when it comes to young men and the potential for sexual assault. Nor is abuse of young athletes by any means unique to Canadian hockey. But as I have argued before, the way Canadian major junior hockey in particular is structured could hardly be a better incubator for all these horrors.Article content
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