Former players, execs say CHL initiations ‘fun and never crossed any lines.’ rwesthead writes.
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, alleges the CHL is replete with abuse and that its teams and their executives have perpetuated “a toxic environment which condones violent, discriminatory, racist, sexualized, and homophobic conduct, including physical and sexual assault, on the underage players that they are obligated to protect.”about their alleged abuse. Several players said they had been sodomized with hockey sticks covered in"liquid heat.
Kruise Reddick, a player with the Tri-City Americans from 2006-11, wrote in an Oct. 28 affidavit that because the drinking age in Washington state is 21, alcohol was hard to access and there was not much drinking and no hazing on the team. Halifax Mooseheads majority owner Bobby Smith, who played with the Ottawa 67’s from 1975-78 before he was drafted first overall in the 1978 NHL entry draft, wrote in an Oct. 29 affidavit that when he played in Ottawa, “the veteran players might shave the rookies’ body hair at the beginning of the season.”
“Four or five rookies went into the bus bathroom on a road trip near the beginning of the season,” he wrote in a Nov. 1 affidavit. “Our clothes were tied up into a ball and we had to untie the ball, get dressed, and come out as quickly as possible. When I participated in the ‘hot box’, it took us less than five minutes to untie our clothes and come out. The longest I ever witnessed rookies in the ‘hot box’ was 20-30 minutes.
Eric Chouinard, director of player safety for QMJHL since 2019, played three seasons with the Quebec Remparts from 1997-2000. Chouinard said while the Remparts had rookie “initiation” parties, they were meant to foster team bonding. Yves Lacasse, a former police officer who was the WHL’s security officer from 2014-19, wrote in an Oct. 29 affidavit that he conducted internal investigations of reports made by players and league officials in his role. He wrote he didn’t remember any complaints involving hazing.
Taylor’s mother, Kim, has previously alleged that Garrett was released from the Hurricanes early in the 2009-10 season by being pulled off the bus prior to a road trip. He was told to take his equipment off the bus and report to the Hurricanes’ Jr. A team in Canmore, Alta., without being given any gas or food money, she said.
Carcillo played for the OHL’s Sarnia Sting starting in the summer of 2002 when he was 17. He and approximately 12 other Sting rookies suffered “almost constant abuse for the entire 2002-03 season,” he has alleged.
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