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mental health reread.

“I still remember one night when we went to a game in Sarnia with Daniel’s grandparents and Daniel was given an award before the game for doing well in school that month,” she said... But Luana said her son later told her that it had been the worst day of his life. “He was hazed and abused by other players so badly that day, because hockey are not supposed to be smart. "

I actually can't stop crying over this book.

"Houston recounted the story of a thirteen-year-old boy in the Metro Toronto Hockey League, the predecessor of today’s Greater Toronto Hockey League, who was his team’s best player but was made to wear a pink sweater and carry a purse during practice because the coach felt he wasn’t aggressive enough during a pre-season game."

"... How could a moral organization find itself lumped in with Hollywood sex predators and the former president of the United States—the sort of people who run around wallpapering over crimes with cash? The answer is that large corporations are neither moral nor immoral. Once they reach a certain size, they are amoral. They exist only to protect and propagate themselves.”

"Hodge hopes that one day the Canadian public may come to accept that hockey is not as pure as people believe it is and desperately want it to be."

For the past century, too many people have wanted to just “feel good” about hockey. Every sport, every industry, every corner of society has been touched by power imbalances and cases of sexual misconduct. Hockey is no exception, and it deserves and demands the same scrutiny as any other sector or sport.

the Freya Marske blurb on this is really doing a lot of the heavy lifting here because i'm trying so hard not to dnf it in the hopes it gets better.