Sexual Assault Case Shakes Hockey’s Upper Echelon in Canada

Canada defeated Sweden to win the world junior hockey championship in January 2018, a victory watched by a huge audience in a hockey-obsessed country.

Five months later, members of that celebrated team attended a charity event in an Ontario city, where they allegedly sexually assaulted a young woman in a hotel room. The accusation and the cover-up are now shaking the upper echelons of hockey in Canada.

The government has launched a forensic audit of Hockey Canada, the sport’s governing body. Several large companies including Bank of Nova Scotia and Telus Corp. have frozen,…