Embarrassing tweet from 2018 comes back to haunt Hockey Canada

While the investigation is ongoing in the troubling case of the Hockey Canada sex assault scandal, another humiliating thing about the roster resurfaces on Wednesday.

As the news coverage on the alleged sexual assault case keeps trending, fans started to repost a tweet from Hockey Canada themselves that is just embarrassing for the mess the association currently finds itself into.

The tweet has seen been removed by Hockey Canada, however, too many fans have used it to make it disappear entirely. The post shows the 2018 roster from the World Juniors, with the caption: “Proud of this group and everything you accomplished on and off the ice.”

Let’s just say the tweet did not age well…

In May, news broke that Hockey Canada quietly settled a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by eight unnamed players, including several members of the country’s 2018 world junior team, following a gala in London, Ontario.

This case is getting so heavy to report. Especially with new details emerging as the investigation is building a case against the alleged victim. On Tuesday, lawyers for Hockey Canada released text messages and videos to The Globe and Mail which seem to contradict, but nevertheless shed more light onto what exactly happened that evening. First, the Globe acquired videos which showed the alleged victim stating that the acts that evening were consensual. It should be noted that these statements could be made under duress. The alleged victim and her mother later went to police : in her statement, the woman claims alleges “she felt an imminent fear of physical harm and at times was crying and tried to leave the room” but was “directed, manipulated and intimidated into remaining, after which she was subjected to further sexual assaults.”

This is a terrible case and fans want to know the truth because the allegations cannot be erased as simply as a tweet.