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I'm glad I can say that I played high level hockey for the first 20 years of my life, and was always surrounded by fantastic people. The only hazing I ever saw was just your standard rookie stuff, carry the older guys bags from the bus kind of thing. I remember two instances where a new older player would join the team and ask how we were going to 'get' the rookies that year and both times they were shut down immediately. Very supportive coaches and billets that never would have tolerated any sort of abuse.

So it saddens me to see so many people's experiences were different. Hockey is a team game and if anyones idea of how to treat a teammate involves bullying or abuse needs to go, plain and simple.

Maybe Hockey Canada needs some sort of whistleblower players can contact if coaches aren't doing anything. But in the meantime I'm at least glad these things seem to blow up when they got social media.

I don't have any answers, I don't even understand why it happens in the first place, but I do know it needs to stop. No more "well that's the way it's always been" #### that