MOSCOW, Jul 19 Canadian hockey lawyers will provide the National Hockey League conducting the investigation ( NHL) video and correspondence of players involving the victim of the alleged rape, according to TSN. Previously, TSN reported that a certain woman, now 24 years old, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Ontario in April, alleging that in June 2018 she repeatedly was sexually assaulted in a hotel room. The defendants in the case were Hockey Canada, the Canadian Hockey League (CHL), and eight unnamed CHL players, including members of the 2018 Canadian Youth Team. The accusations against the players were not proven in court then, the lawsuit was eventually withdrawn. According to the information received by the TV channel, two videos were recorded, on the first of which, before the incident, the girl was asked for consent, and on the second, recorded after the incident, whether she had any claims. According to the source, the girl in the video confirms her consent. At the same time, in her statement dated April 2022, she noted that the hockey players forced her to say these words on camera. The channel also received a correspondence from one of the players with the alleged victim, in which he convinces her to withdraw her statement from the police. It is noted that the girl was drunk and agreed to have sex with one of the players, but later seven more hockey players entered the room.
