Concerns have been raised for years, but the cases presently in the news appear to have caused considerable introspection at hockey’s highest levels
It’s a big, complicated business, with some teams churning out millions of dollars in annual revenue and others barely solvent. The major junior leagues have some of the trappings of professional sport, with elite teenagers selected in a draft that could see them forced to move far from home to play.
Another class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 alleges anti-competitive practices and conspiracy among the junior leagues, citing the limits on player choice and mobility rights. Lawmakers in Canada and the United States have questioned whether the CHL’s business violates labour rules, but the junior leagues have successfully lobbied for exemptions to the employment-standards provisions in the provinces in which they operate.
These kinds of concerns have been raised for years, but the cases that are presently in the news appear to have caused considerable introspection at hockey’s highest levels. Hockey Canada on Monday vowed a new action plan to “address systemic issues in hockey.” But can junior hockey be reformed with education campaigns and codes of conducts, or will it take a more comprehensive teardown of the systems in place? For the cities and towns in which junior hockey, and the chance to support kids on their way to NHL stardom, is part of the way of life, that might seem like anathema.
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