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

[Frank Garrett]

Only Fleury is left in the NHL, though Upshall is still in the media with his shitty podcast.

I unsubscribed from their podcast today; kind of scarred from the "lamb roast... unresponsive" description of the 2003 video recording.

The podcast was decent at the beginning when the guy from Entourage was on it and Jimmy Hayes seemed like he was just getting started in the world of podcasting. But after Hayes' death the show took a big hit.

Obie seems like a man child but he's humble at least. He does enable Upshall though by playing up Upshall's shtick as a retired p***yhound like a little kid who's in awe of it. Upshall just seems like a... real life Bill Paxton in True Lies type of guy. Not very likeable.

Anyway. It was time.

 

[Arbsy]

You do realize its not even the victim reporting it? It's interesting that your first thought was this was a money grab. Says a lot about you as a person. I have nothing to say to you that won't get me infracted but I hope to god you take a second to self reflect on why you immediately jumped to the conclusion you did

It’s bizarre the amount of people who immediately jump to “she’s lying” or “it’s for the money” while then scolding everyone else for jumping to conclusions.

The HFBoards rape defence team works around the clock. Some serious clowns making posts on here, literally defending rapists and invalidating victims.

Video shows men raping an unconscious woman. “Let’s just wait for more details to come out before we jump to conclusions, I find the timing of this suspicious” lmao. f*** off and start taking a look at yourself, absolute clown show.

Anyways, I seriously hope these players have to answer for their actions and we start to see a real move towards changing this toxic culture.

Consequences for the guilty parties and better role models for the younger guys coming up can have a huge impact on getting this garbage out of the game.

 

[The Worst One]

I've always felt the WJC grew way too large and Canadians/media put too much pressure and glorified these amateur teenage kids. It became so commercialized and grew so big I don't think the kids and Hockey Canada were/are prepared for it, I miss the days of it being played in small rinks with a few fans not primetime in NHL rinks.

That being said it's inexcusable and absolutely disgusting what these teams are being accused of. There is an element of hockey culture that is toxic and these kids probably shouldn't be sent off on their own at 16 years of age with no real authority and given local celebrity status. The party/alcohol drinking culture in Jr hockey and Canada in general is not good. It's sad that it is so common for a teenage girl can binge drink so much she becomes unresponsive and infuriating and disgusting that people would take advantage of that.

Yes there is obviously a major problem with Canadian hockey culture, but there is also drinking/party culture in Canada that never gets talked about. I think most Canadians grew up with it being far to common for themselves or friends getting blackout drunk atleast once or a few times in their youth. Drinking culture is bad in Canada and is something I hope changes when my kids get older.

The last paragraph is spot on. Thank you sir.

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

You'd think sober enough to copulate would mean sober enough for at least one alleged participant to say "Look what we're doing here. This isn't right.", and put a stop to the utter degradation of a helpless individual.

The fact that nobody did tells me that there is indeed something rotten within hockey culture, as much as many of us are loathe to admit it. And similar reprehensible acts are alleged to have occurred as late as 2018, but in all likelihood to this day.

NHL, Hockey Canada, CHL leagues, minor associations, league authorities wherever hockey is played - it's time to confront the problem, and eliminate the vile, dehumanizing, criminal behavior that taints our sport.