Players from the Canadian national hockey team may find themselves in the dock in a rape case. According to The Globe and Mail, official charges may be brought against them in the near future.
The scandal, in the center of which were the hockey players of the Canadian youth team, has been going on since 2022, while the incident itself occurred in 2018. According to the source, five youth players, among whom there are already active NHL players, committed sexual assault against a 20-year-old local resident during a trip to London for a charity golf tournament.
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The victim, whose name has not been released, said that the men gave her alcohol in a London hotel bar, after which she retired to a room with one of them. However, then, according to the girl, seven more men entered the room, who “manipulated” her and tried to intimidate her so that she would not leave the room. According to the victim, she cried and asked the men to let her go, but they did not.
After the incident, she contacted the police, but the initial investigation did not lead to charges and was completed in February 2019. In April 2022, the victim filed a lawsuit against Hockey Canada, the Canadian Hockey League and eight unnamed players, demanding damages in the amount of $3.55 million. TSN reported that the Canadian Hockey Federation settled the lawsuit a month later.
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Officially, the names of the athletes suspected of rape were not named. However, the media drew attention to the fact that five hockey players over the past four days have been sent on indefinite leave by their clubs. We are talking about Michael McLeod and Cal Foote from New Jersey, Carter Hart, goalkeeper of Philadelphia, Calgary forward Dillon Dube, winger Alex Formentone, playing for the Swiss Ambri-Piotta. Moreover, the latter’s name was mentioned in the context of the scandal two years ago, when the forward, after a successful season, did not receive a new contract from Ottawa.
The media claim that the London police have already notified the players that they need to surrender to law enforcement officers. At the same time, the department itself has not yet given any comments on this topic, promising to clarify the situation later.