That picture is absolutely appalling.
I'm glad to see some of this bullcrap behaviour brought to light as the people who pulled this stuff got away with it for too long and even did it with the support of others.
Players were afraid to speak up as that would only bring on more problems.
I played tier II rep growing up so we didn't have as many of the toxic alpha types that the AAA teams had. Some of my friends were excellent hockey players but had trouble dealing with some of the hyper-alpha d-bags who got off on the hazing and harassment. The game will be much better moving forward due to guys like Akim speaking up about what he has faced in the past.
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