The NHL will wait for the judicial process to play out before making any decisions about four players facing sexual assault charges in a 2018 case involving Canada’s world junior team that year, Commissioner Gary Bettman said Friday (Feb. 2).
Addressing the situation at All-Star Weekend days after the NHL players were charged by police in London, Ont., with sexual assault, Bettman called the allegations “abhorrent, reprehensible, horrific and unacceptable.
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