Hockey Canada will need to address the elephant in the arena when junior hockey’s premier tournament resumes in Edmonton this month, says the head of a local sexual violence support centre
The tournament has been rescheduled for Aug. 9-20 in Edmonton, but will take place under aCriminal probes have been opened intothat members of the 2003 and 2018 men’s U-20 teams committed group sexual assaults during their tournaments.
“I think what it is, is an opportunity for the coaches and the management of the team, up to Hockey Canada, to say, ‘We hear you, we are sorry, we did not handle this well. And we will never do this again.’ And they need to make an apology to the parents who literally paid out of their own pocket for those settlements.”Advertisement 4“We’ve only just begun,” she said. “Our phones are ringing off the walls.
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