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Originally Posted by kermitology
Don't for a minute think that this is a Canadian problem.. it's a hockey problem and generally a male problem, but the alpha male culture of hockey is a big contributor.
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I wasn't implying that it was just a problem with Canadian hockey teams. I left the possibility open to other World Junior / national teams from other countries having the same sort of culture.
It's just that here in Canada, World Juniors are a really big deal (and maybe more so than in other countries). They're like our version of the Olympics. So the implications of a fallout involving Hockey Canada would be huge. It'd be arguably at the same scale as the IOC banning the Russian Olympic team from participating in the Olympics for state-sponsored doping. It's a widespread systemic issue that has been allowed to go on for far too long.