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We Breed Lions

Confronting Canada's Troubled Hockey Culture

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We Breed Lions

Auteur(s): Rick Westhead, Stephen Brunt - introduction
Narrateur(s): Rick Westhead, Stephen Brunt
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 A hard-hitting and powerful look at hockey's moment of reckoning in Canada, and the ways in which a game that is so universally loved has been rocked in recent years by court cases involving sexual assault and startling incidents of hazing and abuse throughout junior hockey.

The allegations read like a scene out of a horror movie.

Five National Hockey League players, all of them 18 to 20-year-old Canada World Juniors at the time, were alleged to have sexually assaulted a young woman in a London, Ontario, hotel room in June 2018 over several hours. When the players learned that the alleged victim had reported the incident to the police, they allegedly coerced her to drop the complaint and colluded to make sure their stories lined up. Hockey Canada kept the details of the case out of the spotlight and came to a confidential financial settlement with the plaintiff, paid out of a secret slush fund worth millions of dollars that the organization kept on hand to settle such complaints quietly.

On May 26, 2022, TSN investigative reporter Rick Westhead broke the story surrounding the Team Canada junior players and Hockey Canada's handling of the case, immediately sending shock waves throughout all levels of the hockey world. Charges of sexual assault were made against the players; all of whom entered pleas of not guilty. Once the story went live on the TSN website, Westhead's inbox on X filled with messages from people who wanted to share their personal stories on how they had been impacted by hockey's toxic culture.

For over three years the story ignited an enormous amount of debate and discussion across the country. Even after the players were acquitted of all charges in July, 2025, the conversation about how broken the national game had become only intensified.

In We Breed Lions, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Rick Westhead does a deep-dive into the state of hockey in Canada today. He gives voice to those who have been sexually assaulted by hockey players, revealing the struggles they've had with local police officials in their efforts to seek justice. He also goes inside the dressing room to find out how attitudes of misogyny and homophobia continue to flourish, and speaks to former players who were forced to perform degrading acts of initiation in order to “be one of the guys.”

Looming large in Westhead's extraordinary reporting are the gatekeepers of the game—league officials, team owners and members of the sport's governing bodies—who are reluctant to impose change from the outside and willing to sacrifice the well-being of their players and the community for profit.

Westhead offers hope for hockey's future, profiling those individuals and organizations who are committed to educating players around issues of consent, putting an end to hazing and redefining what it means to be a man on and off the ice. Featuring a Foreword by bestselling author Stephen Brunt, We Breed Lions is must-reading for parents, players and all of those who love the game of hockey and want to see it get to a better place. Art et littérature Hockey Journalistes, rédacteurs et éditeurs Sociologie des sports Sports Effrayant
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This book offers an extraordinary deep and critical, yet balanced dive into Canada's hockey culture. Rick Westhead helps us understand why events like the recent Team Canada hockey trial happen through exploring the systems and culture that normalize toxic masculinity and make it difficult for participants in the system to question or break free of the dominant narrative. First hand accounts from many people involved in and influenced by hockey culture provide rich context. Although the books is difficult to listen to at times, it ends on a hopeful note. A love for Canada's game is not an excuse to stick our heads in the sand. If you love the game, you need to read this book so that what is great about the game is not lost to what needs to change.

An important read for anyone who loves hockey

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Must read for every Canadian. Heartbreaking, shocking, terrifying, the cycle needs to be broken. Hopefully lesson will be learned from reading this book.

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