Didn't see a thread for this yet, but I've read a few stomach-turning articles about Carcillo and his teammates' brutal hazing experiences with the Sarnia Sting:
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl...buse-1.4922623
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl...illo-1.4924124
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"One of the most vivid memories that stands out is one of my teammates being taped to a table ass-up naked being whipped with his own belt by two veterans. He was screaming," Carcillo told CBC.
He said rookie players were often made to pull their pants down and subject themselves to beatings with a jagged goalie stick.
And that wasn't the worst of it. He recalls being stuffed into a bus washroom with six teammates.
"Forty-five minutes and being naked in a hot box having their tobacco-chew spit thrown through a vent at us. That was my breaking point," Carcillo remembers.
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In an interview with CBC News on Tuesday, Munce spoke of being spanked and hit over the head with the paddle of his goalie stick in the Sting dressing room, while fellow rookies were strapped to a table and beaten with belts and other items.
"I had more suicidal thoughts than anything else," he told reporter Ioanna Roumeliotis for The National. "These are supposed to be your friends; they're kind of your family."
"There was a lot of incidents that were kind of next-level," said Munce.
Other alleged incidents included:
A Jewish teammate being brought to tears by a teammate posing as Adolf Hitler.
A player being forced to put his penis in RUB A535, the muscle and joint heat cream.
Former teammates Charles Amodeo and Dave Pszenyczny also corroborated the stories of abuse.
"It just ruined me emotionally," Amodeo told The National in an interview Wednesday. "They're calling you every name in the book. Just really degrading who you are. And there was no justification behind it. It was a power trip.
"And if you said something, you opened your mouth, if you complained — you're pretty much on the next bus ride home."
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15 years later, the world's a much different place and I don't doubt things aren't as bad now. but for this to even have happened in recent memory, in our civilized country, to kids in a top level league is just so gross.