Canada's 2003 world hockey junior team also accused of group sexual assault

[Gaudfather]

This story is just breaking now...

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/oth...edb4ec4ca27dcd

Hockey Canada said in a statement on Friday that it learned of the alleged incident after being contacted by TSN seeking comment on the alleged assault. It's the second allegation of sexual assault involving Canada's world junior hockey team to become public in a span of two months.

The national sports body said that following the reporter's email it immediately contacted Sport Canada as well as Halifax Regional Police about the allegations. Halifax was the co-host city of the 2003 world junior hockey championship.

"Hockey Canada is committed to bringing an end to the culture of silence in hockey," reads the organization's statement. "That is why we are publicly calling for anyone with knowledge of this incident to come forward to police, and we are being transparent in how we learned of this alleged assault and the steps we are taking to address it."

"We believe the alleged incident from 2003 should be investigated by the authorities, and we urge the police to open an investigation into this disturbing situation," said Hockey Canada's statement. "Hockey Canada will co-operate with and support the authorities in every way we can, and we once again urge anyone who may have relevant information about this alleged incident to contact Halifax police immediately."

[Mr.Coffee]

Oh I see... it's like a favourite past-time / initiation type thing.

Cool. "For old times sake eh boys? Where's the rape victim tonight??"

[EVERLAST]

Geez this is becoming a nightmare for hockey. Keep it in your pants guys. Wow.

[CroFlames]

Keep your goddam hands and dicks to yourselves, Jesus guys.

[bc-chris]

ugh.

the roster according to google....

1 CA Carlo Colaiacovo
2 CA Pierre Parenteau
3 CA Brooks Laich
4 CA Ian White
5 CA Scottie Upshall
6 CA Pierre-Marc Bouchard
7 CA Kyle Wellwood
8 CA Joffrey Lupul
9 CA Jay McClement
10 CA Derek Roy
11 CA Brendan Bell
12 CA Gregory Campbell
13 CA Matthew Stajan
14 CA Jordin Tootoo
15 CA Jeff Woywitka
16 CA Steve Eminger
17 CA Nathan Paetsch
18 CA Marc-Andre Fleury
19 CA Alexandre Rouleau
20 CA David LeNeveu
21 CA Boyd Gordon
22 CA Daniel Paille

[Reaper]

This immature teenage boy attitude where girls/women are just conquests or notches on a bedpost to impress your "bros" with numbers has to stop. Without correction in younger males without strong role models it can fester and manifest into predatory behaviour where girls/women are assaulted because getting them drunk was seen as fair game decades ago. Cowards feel emboldened by group assaults and it snowballs from there. We must hammer home that the only form of consent is a sober "Yes" instead of the lack of "No".

[Geeoff]

It would be really ####ty for the Flames if both Dube and Stajan were involved in this garbage

[MrMike]

Stajans a saint.

[Flamesfan74]

Originally Posted by Reaper

This immature teenage boy attitude where girls/women are just conquests or notches on a bedpost to impress your "bros" with numbers has to stop. Without correction in younger males without strong role models it can fester and manifest into predatory behaviour where girls/women are assaulted because getting them drunk was seen as fair game decades ago. Cowards feel emboldened by group assaults and it snowballs from there. We must hammer home that the only form of consent is a sober "Yes" instead of the lack of "No".

This. I’ve told my son about being honest with us about stuff that is said or happens in the dressing room. He told us one day that one of the boys said that my son much of had a few girls already.

[JohnnyB]

I really don't find any of this surprising. It's obviously not okay, but it's also not surprising.

[devo22]

so we've had alleged group sexual assaults by two different WJC teams and a team owner who's accused of paying an underage girl for sex. Yeah, this is going great for hockey right now.

it makes you wonder (and shiver) which other skeletons there might be in the closet. But it's good that this #### is starting to surface, even if it's painful and gross.

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by devo22

so we've had alleged group sexual assaults by two different WJC teams and a team owner who's accused of paying an underage girl for sex. Yeah, this is going great for hockey right now.

it makes you wonder (and shiver) which other skeletons there might be in the closet. But it's good that this #### is starting to surface, even if it's painful and gross.

I’m sure there are many.

People say “hockey’s a religion” all the time. They’re not wrong.

Religions (cults) are well known for rampant sexual abuse.

And any institution that becomes so beloved as a football team, hockey team, gymnastics program, movie studio, you see where I’m going, is going to have to constantly be on guard against things like this.

And if they’re not, those things will happen. And if (when) those institutions cover the initial scandal up, it will be so much worse than if they’d just done the right thing in the moment instead of protecting a rapist.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by JohnnyB

I really don't find any of this surprising. It's obviously not okay, but it's also not surprising.

If all the assaults were made public and there were real consequences, there'd be no NHL.

[sureLoss]

Apparently there is a video of 6 players taking turns having sex with a woman who was unresponsive

https://www.tsn.ca/sexual-assault-al...team-1.1828253

The statement was released after Conservative MP John Nater, a member of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, told TSN on Thursday he plans to ask Hockey Canada on July 27 to respond to allegations that more than a half-dozen players on the 2003 World Junior team were recorded during the tournament having sex with a woman who was naked and non-responsive.

Nater, who represents the southwestern Ontario riding of Perth-Wellington, said he spoke with a source who said he viewed a video of the alleged incident in the spring of 2003, several months after the World Junior tournament was held in Halifax.

“We’re talking about Canada’s elite national team and to hear allegations like this is just disgusting,” Nater said.

TSN has independently interviewed the source who contacted Nater and corroborated their account with two additional sources, including the owner of the video camera used to film the alleged incident.

The sources have requested anonymity because they said they fear recriminations. Each of the three sources told TSN they are willing to testify about the purported video in private before the committee. The three sources independently described the six- or seven-minute video.

The source who contacted Nater works in the hockey industry and said the video began with a Team Canada player standing outside of a room, answering questions as if he were doing a pre-game interview with the person holding the camera, who is not identified.

The player told the camera operator that viewers were about to see "a f---ing lamb roast,” the three sources said. After the hallway interview, the camera was then carried into a room with a pool table, the source said.

The video shows roughly a half-dozen players taking turns having sex with a woman who was non-responsive and lying face up on the pool table, the source said.

[TheIronMaiden]

####

[Jordan!]

Willing to bet money that Upshall and Lupul are a part of this.

Source: Scottsdale stories

[MrMike]

Originally Posted by Jordan!

Willing to bet money that Upshall and Lupul are a part of this.

Source: Scottsdale stories

Yeah, not to speculate but those two are awful

[Heavy Jack]

Yikes that is just mortifyingly bad on so many levels…

[Jiggy_12]

Not sure what I expected, but this is definitely worse than I expected

[Roof-Daddy]

There is VIDEO and it took 20 ####ing years for this to be made public?!

Disgusting. We better see heads roll. Not just the rapists, but also the pieces of #### that covered it up.