On the toxicity of hockey culture
For those of you still undecided about the need to overhaul organized hockey programs in Canada, I sincerely hope yesterday’s revelations make you reconsider. Whether you considered Don Cherry’s incoherent babbling innocuous or wrote off the experiences of players like Akim Aliu and Brock McGillis as isolated incidents, Daniel Carcillo’s formal filing of a class-action lawsuit against the CHL has the potential to set a legal precedent in terms of defining and punishing toxicity in Canadian hockey programs and thus legitimize the claims from former players that for years have fallen on deaf ears.