{"id":130896,"date":"2025-09-09T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130896\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:57:07","slug":"nhl-expects-decision-soon-on-five-former-hockey-canada-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130896\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL expects decision soon on five former Hockey Canada players"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carter Hart leaves the courthouse in London, Ont. on May 2. Hockey Canada says all five athletes remain suspended from its sanctioned programming.Geoff Robins\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly says he expects a decision soon on the status of five former Hockey Canada<\/a> players acquitted at trial in a high-profile sexual assault case.<\/p>\n

Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote were acquitted July 24 in London, Ont. McLeod was also acquitted of a separate charge of being a party to the offence of sexual assault.<\/p>\n

The ruling, which was handed down more than seven years after the encounter in a hotel room at the heart of the case, capped off a complex trial that captured attention across Canada and renewed conversations about consent and hockey culture.<\/p>\n

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The NHL said following the decision, the players remain ineligible to suit up in the league while it reviews the findings. That declaration was denounced by the NHL Players\u2019 Association, while Hockey Canada said the five athletes remain suspended from all its sanctioned programming.<\/p>\n

Daly didn\u2019t provide an update Tuesday when speaking to a small group of reporters at the NHL\/NHLPA player media tour in Las Vegas, but said he anticipates there will be \u201ca decision at some point in the relatively near future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daly added the NHL takes \u201cthe matter very seriously, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s still under review.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Carter Hart leaves the courthouse in London, Ont. on May 2. Hockey Canada…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[3793,3782,64,63,3794,1348,3774,3795,2065,3773,3787,3788,3784,3775,3772,164,2555,75,69,3781,3805,3776,3777,3786,3783,1625,2289,3796,3779,3800,3801,575,3803,3798,3802,3797,3799,3778,3790,3791,84,3789,2111,85,635,105,3792,3785,3780,1346,3804],"class_list":["post-130896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-nhl","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}