The hammer could also be coming down on members of the 2018 Canadian World Junior team sooner than we thought. Over the previous couple of days, two gamers — Carter Hart of the Flyers and Dillon Dube of the Flames — had taken indefinite leaves of absence from their groups.
Immediately, Alex Formenton left his Swiss group to “return to Canada,” according to the team’s website. Michael McLeod and Cal Foote, who each performed in New Jersey’s final recreation on Monday, missed apply this morning, and the Devils have released a statement that they’re taking leaves of absence from the group as properly. The group stated it declined to remark any additional right now.
All of this was seemingly a prelude to the information this morning from the Globe and Mail that 5 gamers have been requested to give up to London, Ontario police in reference to their investigation into the alleged incident in June 2018 and can be charged with sexual assault. The 5 gamers have been given a deadline to report back to police, although when that it’s has not been made public. Depend it: Hart, Dube, Formenton, McLeod, Foote…that’s 5.
The NHL has not but launched a press release on the costs or the gamers.
This has picked up steam after dragging on for a very long time. It extends again to April 2022, when a girl filed a lawsuit in opposition to Hockey Canada claiming she had been assaulted after a Hockey Canada occasion in London in June of 2018. Hockey Canada settled the lawsuit, nevertheless it got here to mild that not solely had Hockey Canada settled different lawsuits regarding sexual assault from gamers on their groups, however that that they had used member charges to type a slush fund to settle claims of sexual assault particularly.
These occasions led to an entire overhaul of Hockey Canada’s management, in addition to the formation of an impartial investigation into what occurred in June 2018 and the aftermath. The London police additionally reopened their investigation into it on the again of it, which is how we received the place we’re at the moment.
