Hockey Canada marketed the game as a safe place for families. Now that myth is shattered

For decades Hockey Canada has marketed hockey generally and the World Juniors in particular as a safe place for kids and families to dream big dreams. Will they be able to again, after this nightmare? By: michaelgrange

It turns out that raising kids is neither art nor science, but instead a great leap of faith. You hope for great things, pray against terrible ones and in the end come to recognize either one of those extremes is largely outside your control.

And no organization has benefitted more from the notion of hockey as the fabric that binds than Hockey Canada and its annual participation in the World Juniors. two rosters are potentially involved it’s impossible for anyone associated with Hockey Canada to argue they were isolated events by rogue actors.

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