Former Canadian world junior hockey players face sex assault charges

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Caption: The incident under investigation is alleged to have occurred in Halifax during the 2003 world junior hockey championship and involved members of Canada's team. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)

Four NHL players, and one pro European player, are charged with sexual assault, in a troubling story that began years ago. The charges relate to the alleged group assault of a woman in 2018, that took place when the accused were members of Canada's world junior hockey team.
Katie Strang is a senior investigative writer with The Athletic and walks us through these new charges — and whether anything has actually changed in hockey since this scandal first came to light.
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