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This is beyond rookie hazing, this is full on assault&abuse. I’d like to think this particular instance isn’t relatively recent (that does NOT make it any more passable) due to the nature of the abuse and it saying the assailants are now “prominent members of the hockey industry” https://twitter.com/tsnhockey/status/1276141002781347840
I myself played junior hockey, not to this level, but hazing or initiation is at every level all the way down to the minor hockey levels. I was lucky enough not to experience or see anything nearly as disturbing as what’s listed here. I just cannot comprehend how you can treat a
Fellow teammate with such disrespect and anger. A team should be a family and a place to get away from your problems, not create more. My heart breaks for this individual and the countless others that have experienced such abuse. Being a rookie doesn’t make you a lesser player or
Person and vice versa with being a veteran. I don’t care if times were different “back then”...abuse is abuse no matter how you look at it. We have a long way to go but we’re on the right track to make the hockey world a better place just by those such as this individual having
The courage to come out and bring their experiences and abuse to light. Your bravery will never go unnoticed.
