Hockey Canada trial: First NHL player testifies, says he doesn't remember much
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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 asked in the video, played Wednesday for jurors at the sexual assault trial of McLeod and four teammates from Canada's 2018 gold-winning world junior hockey team, who were in London for a Hockey Canada gala.
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