This stuff is more rampant than many people want to acknowledge. Hazing was still a big part of the Dental College in Saskatchewan 10 years ago.
Beyond hazing the sexual abuse and exploitation of females in hockey culture is another looming closet that will disgust everyone.
What I don’t understand is that after Graham James & David Frost there hasn’t been a zero tolerance for this type of behavior. The kind of zero tolerance that systematically counsels senior players/students that if this behavior goes on the consequences will be beyond severe, even criminal.
It’s the code of silence that perpetuate this crap. “If one of us is guilty we’re all guilty.”
But this is part of hockey’s good ol’ boys culture. It’s Don Cherry Chicken Hawk lipspeak. Talk is cheap. He went after Graham James like it was a one off an anomaly. These things are exponentially harder to hide in an open and transparent culture.
But that is not hockey culture.
David Frost was buddies with Bob Goodenow.
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