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Breaking: Five members of the 2018 world junior hockey team have been told to surrender to London, Ont., police to face charges of sexual assault, The Globe and Mail reports, citing unnamed sources.



Breaking: Five members of the 2018 world junior hockey team have been told to surrender to London, Ont., police to face charges of sexual assault, The Globe and Mail reports, citing unnamed sources.

by TheRobberBar0n

35 Comments

  1. TheRobberBar0n

    The names have not yet been released. Both McLeod and Cal Foote were on the roster.

  2. nsfate18

    Damn I guess things are progressing. Dube and Hart timing is even more suspicious but I guess time will tell for Mikey

  3. max10081

    Practice is at 11am. Figure if he’s not there, that would be a bad sign

  4. LionHeart_1990

    Was McLeod at the curling event last night?

  5. specifichero101

    Still won’t speculate, but it would be a real shit cherry on top to this season if McLeod is implicated. It seems unlikely at this point, but I’m anxious to see the names.

  6. isuzuki51

    This is pure uninformed speculation, but with Dube and Hart both taking leaves of absences in the last 48 hours and then this breaking, it seems as though we’re only looking for 3 more names.

    Do we have any indication of who else could’ve been named outside of McLeod?

  7. Devil_Dane

    I’m keeping an open mind, but I’m also keeping my mouth shut on the internet.

    I still remember how the Reddit hive mind, with amazing precision *and* accuracy, single handedly solved the April 2013 Boston Bomber case (“We did it reddit!”) / s.

    I’ll just wait for the official presentation of information.

  8. java_king

    I’m happy to have this behind us potentially.

    Either McLeod is one of the 5 names and rightfully will be banished to the shadow realm or he’s innocent and we can stop bringing his name up whenever the hockey Canada story makes its rounds

  9. Odd_Ad1605

    This would also explain why we didn’t offer Mikey a longer term contract in the offseason😞. I’m gonna be super bummed if he turns out to be apart of this.

  10. McRibs2024

    There’s nothing to do but wait and see for an hour until practice lines are produced.

    Gonna be a real shitstorm if he’s on a maintenance day completely unrelated to this. Sub would explode I reckon.

  11. nostradamefrus

    Please dear satan let McLeod not be part of this

  12. Steven_Scotts

    What makes people think it was McLeod apart from him just being on the team?

  13. rfmiller80

    I just think it would be quite odd that a rumor of us wanting trade Mcleod would be harshly shut down by Fitz and it would then come out that he IS involved in this shortly after.

    Folks around the league probably have a pretty good idea of the 5 players involved. I’m just having trouble thinking of how that trade rumor would have even become a thing if people in the know also know he is connected to this.

    We’ll see either way.

  14. AnnyongHermanoMD

    Fitz going to sign PK to vet minimum?

  15. Wait, what’s the context here? What happened?

  16. MaxCapricorn

    It’s most likely Dube, Hart, Formenton, Comtois, and a mystery player so the odds are low it could be McLeod. That being said, if it is he’s and asshole and we’re totally fucked.

  17. nuremberp

    I will certainly be very disappointed if it turns out the mcleod was definitively involved. 🤦‍♂️

  18. WillardPP13

    I’ve seen mention of Dube, Hart, Comtois and Formenton mostly. I’ve seen a few mentions of Howden and Batherson, so there’s a possibility McLeod isn’t one of the 5.

  19. rockthered24

    This coming right before ASG weekend is exactly what the NHL deserves. This will rightly dominate the headlines. The NHL didn’t take sexual assault seriously with the Hawks.

    Now they will have multiple players facing criminal charges for SA.

  20. 86TheLettuce

    McLeod and Cal Foote not at practice today

  21. The McLeod defense Olympics never die in r/devils

  22. Michael McLeod, Cal Foote and John Marino are all absent from today’s #NJDevils practice.

    as per Amanda

  23. And there it is. Per Amanda Stein, no McLeod or Foote today.

  24. azrael5298

    Formenton is #3. Just reported he is taking time from his team too.

  25. PeppiPanini

    Ppl, we’ll know soon enough. Don’t take McLeod or Foote being held out as anything other than the team(and all teams) TRYING to avoid a media shit storm for any HC 2018 roster players having to answer questions today. Maybe McLeod is one, maybe he’s not. Maybe just wait instead of jumping to conclusions and you’ll have your answer.

  26. ErnieShovelhead

    Both have requested indefinite leave

  27. LOL some of you are delusional.

    “Oh maybe he’s not at practice since he wants to avoid a media shit storm.”

    Isn’t it more than odd that in the last 24 hours, 3 people have taken leaves of absences from their respective clubs (Hart, Dube, Formenton) and two others Foote (who is barely an NHLer) and McLeod are absent from team functions and team skate the day the report comes out that 5 guys have to surrender?

    Notice how Makar or Batherson or others aren’t absent from practice? Wouldn’t they be facing a media shit storm?? If you have nothing to hide, you face the music and answer whatever questions you can.

    We cannot say for sure these 5 are guilty until they drop names but boy oh boy the timing of everything is more than a little coincidental. It’s not looking good

  28. ilovemyar15

    Seems like the five in question are Formenton, Hart, Dube, Foote, and Mikey.

    Also being charged with something does not make a person guilty, so let’s cool it with the worst case speculations. Obviously it doesn’t look good but it’s entirely possible that some of the people involved were involved in more minor roles, similar to negligence charges.

  29. Dazzling_Can_3425

    Michael McLeod, Carter hart, Cal Foote, Alex Formenton, and Dillon Dube have all taken leaves of absence with unknown reasoning.

  30. Anyone explain to relative newcomer how this can be happening 6 years later? How are the involved players only now facing consequences for something that happened in 2018? I read a few articles and it appears execs at Canada Hockey were fired. How can that occur before any players are arrested?

  31. eganryanp

    What are they accused of? While I am not suggesting any form of sexual assualt isnt terrible that has a very wide spectrum (from things i wont type like grabbing someone butt). With all the attention i assume it terrible but can find nothing on severity.

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