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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
To understand the nature of this problem you have to understand it's not limited to one or two teams in one or two minor leagues.
It's been a pervasive problem in Canadian Junior hockey for 25+ years.
The federal government should be sanctioning the league at this point, not leave it up to individual team administrators.
If you can't run a sports league for minors without rampant sexual assault you can't run a sports league. Not letting 16 year olds get raped during team building activities isn't exactly a high ####ing bar.
It's absolutely appalling. This should be a national scandal.
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I never said it should be up to team administrators. I said the coaching, management and specific teams need to be penalized, harshly. The coach of this team should never coach again for allowing this crap to go on (or acting like he didn't know something was up). Any decent human would certainly know that something isn't right with a bunch of rookies who were just treated like that a day or two before. Disgusting. Even more so if the numb-skull is actually so oblivious that he truly didn't know anything. Same goes for the management.
Coaches and management are the ones who are around the team, interacting with players on a daily basis. It's appalling that the adults who are charged with literally running the team, turning these kids into pros can somehow escape blame. They are as bad, if not worse than the players committing these acts if you ask me. It is the job of each and every employee of these teams to be running a functional and respectful team, especially when you have children who are part of the equation.
If these teams can't or are unwilling to create environments that are safe, functional team spaces, they should be stripped of their status until they prove they are willing to take it seriously. Enough already. You know there are certainly worse things going on that nobody knows about yet and much of this is because of the team culture or lack thereof these teams allow bad coaches and management to foster.