The Globe and Mail: The Hockey Canada sexual-assault trial is over, but conversations about the sport’s culture continue

The statements were from research conducted by University of Manitoba professor Dr. Jay Johnson, retained as an expert in the lawsuit. Summarizing his analysis, Mr. Johnson stated in the court documents that gang sex was “a focus of the male bonding and initiation process throughout a hockey player’s career in Canadian major junior hockey,” adding, “The goal was to encourage women to drink in order for them to become easy targets as sexual conquests.”

Serious problems have extended beyond allegedly non-consensual group sex acts. In 2021, junior hockey player Logan Mailloux, who is from Ontario, was criminally convicted in Sweden for photographing a woman during sex and then circulating the pictures to his teenage teammates without her consent.

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