{"id":131956,"date":"2025-09-09T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131956\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:32:10","slug":"bill-daly-nhl-expects-decision-on-hockey-canada-five-in-near-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131956\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Daly: NHL expects decision on Hockey Canada five in &#8216;near future&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly says he expects a decision soon on the status of five former Hockey Canada players acquitted at trial in a high-profile sexual assault case.<\/p>\n<p>Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube, and Callan Foote were acquitted on 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<p>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<p>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&#8217; Association, while Hockey Canada said the five athletes remain suspended from all its sanctioned programming.<\/p>\n<p>Daly didn&#8217;t 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 &#8220;a decision at some point in the relatively near future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Daly added the NHL takes &#8220;the matter very seriously, and that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s still under review.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly says he expects a decision soon on the status of five former Hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-131956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}