NHL Player Testifies in Ex-Junior Team Sex Assault Scandal

May 1, 2025, 4:20 am

At the trial of former members of Canada’s World Junior hockey team, NHL player Taylor Raddysh testified again amid charges of sexual assault involving ex-teammates. His remote testimony added a touch of dark irony to a case already steeped in controversy and legal gravity.

nationalpost.com / Hockey Canada trial: First NHL player testifies, says he doesn’t remember much

By: Jane Sims LONDON, ONT. — She was dressed just in a towel pulled up and smiling at the camera on Canadian hockey player Michael McLeod’s cellphone. It was 4:26 a.m. inside a room at the Delta Armouries hotel in downtown London on June 19, 2018. “It was all consensual. Are you recording me?” she…

thestar.com / NHL player to continue testimony at former world junior teammates' sex assault trial

LONDON - The sex assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team is expected to hear more testimony today from Taylor Raddysh, an NHL player who was also on the 2018 world junior team.

citynews.ca / NHL player to continue testimony at former world junior teammates’ sex assault trial

LONDON — The sex assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team is expected to hear more testimony today from Taylor Raddysh, an NHL player who was also on the 2018 world junior team. Raddysh, who plays for the Washington Capitals, took the stand remotely from Arlington,…

cbc.ca / NHL player Taylor Raddysh testifies again today at sex assault trial of ex-world junior teammates

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