Kids and teens show Florida Panthers coach how easy handshakes can be
Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice says that playoff handshakes should be 'on the players.' A handshake line is an NHL tradition. At the end of a hard-fought playoff series, both teams line up, including coaches, and the winners and losers congratulate each other on a good game. But Maurice said he doesn't believe that coaches should be in the line, only players: 'They're the guys who win, lose, suffer, go through the pain, fight for their teammates, take hits, do the real work.' As for coaches, he said: 'We just drink coffee and swear. That's basically what I do.' CBC Kids News wanted to know how hockey fans felt about this. So we asked them during the second round of the NHL playoffs in Toronto, Ontario: Does Maurice have a point?
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Keeping on top of the proceedings from Vancouver, Sarah Leamon, a defence lawyer and prosecutor, says, "It's a very unusual trial given that we have five different co-accused all on trial. "Not only that, but there's also a great deal of interest given the fact that this is a Hockey Canada issue," Leamon said. (Hockey Canada hosted the London gala for the world junior team in 2018, and has also faced criticism over eventually settling a civil lawsuit by the complainant, whose identity is protected under a standard publication ban. During this trial, defence counsel for the accused have also noted Hockey Canada settled the suit without communicating with or seeking the consent of the players.) There has also been a preponderance of evidence. The exhibits shown in court include surveillance footage from a bar, photos of a hotel room, the phones of hockey players, text messages and even a pair of stilettos. 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She is going to rewatch that video many, many times, and that is going to be for her to determine in weighing the complainant's credibility and reliability." Leaman suggests the fact the videos even exist raises questions useful to the Crown. " Why would somebody feel the need to get a consent video after they've engaged in what they believe to be consensual sexual activity with an individual?" Because, under Canadian law, consent has to occur at the time of the sexual activity, Leaman said she would find defending the videos problematic. "We could make the argument, of course, that this is consent and it was valid consent, and this is documenting the valid consent that was obtained at the time. It just seems unusual." Cake pushed back on Leaman's assessment. 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"When E.M. says, 'I was really drunk, didn't feel good about it at all after,' I think the word 'after' is interesting because of course not feeling good, or feeling shame or disgust even after an otherwise consensual encounter does not amount of sexual assault," Puchala said. "When she says, 'But I'm not trying to get anyone in trouble,' that could be true, even if there's a sexual assault. So, even if she was not consenting, and lots of sexual assault victims do not want accused persons to get into trouble." Puchala said the texts corroborate E.M.'s testimony that the initial encounter with McLeod was consensual and "'it was everyone else after that I wasn't expecting." "So, again, what exactly was it that you were not expecting?" Puchala said, adding that "needs to be a determination from Justice Carroccia." Puchala then zeroed in on E.M.'s line "just felt like I was being made fun of and taken advantage of." "Being 'made fun of' is not a crime," Puchala said. "But if it's really being taken advantage of, 'I did not consent to these other men coming into the room and engaging in the behaviours that they did,' that's a whole other story." Leaman zeroed in on the text in which E.M. tells McLeod she "didn't feel good about it at all after." "You can have buyer's remorse, to put it that way, after a sexual encounter that was consensual at the time, but now you look back and you think, 'Oh, I really wish I hadn't done that,'" Leaman said. "That does not vitiate the consent that was given at the time. And this may also speak to the defence that I expect these young men will likely mount." WATCH | WARNING: This video contains graphic content: Crown questions complainant E.M.: E.M. grilled again at Hockey Canada trial as cross-examination wraps 19 days ago Duration 1:54 WARNING: Video contains disturbing details | The Hockey Canada trial complainant, known only as E.M., was again questioned by the defence over her drinking and her account of her alleged sexual assaults, as the defence wrapped seven gruelling days of cross-examination at the sexual assault trial of five former junior hockey players. Leaman was also struck by the manner in which McLeod texted E.M. "He's being very, I think, you know, firm in instructing her to straighten things out right now," Leamon said. " When you look at what MacLeod's doing here, I think that he's incredibly pushy," Cake said. "I mean, the texts started at 10:51 in the morning. And they go, sure, until 7:40. "You can see that E.M. is like, 'Hey, I can't talk right now, I'm at work. I'm sorry. I'm unavailable.' And he's like, 'Are you going to fix this? Are you going to do it today? What are you gonna say to the police?'" Cake said. "I think that these text messages are a fantastic way to frame what obviously the Crown would be pushing as the power dynamic inside that hotel room." "Mr. McLeod comes across as somebody who is sophisticated enough to know he's in some trouble and he's trying to get himself out of it," Leaman said of the text exchange. "And he might just be papering this conversation with things that may assist him later. So that's also a possibility." Puchala said Carroccia will have to view these messages within the context of all the other evidence. "He [McLeod] ends it off with, 'I appreciate you telling the truth. Thank you all the best.' So is it, as [Leamon] was saying, to try to paper the file to make it look a certain way or is it genuinely, 'Oh phew we agree … that it was a mistake.'" The players' group chat On June 26, 2018, as they learned Hockey Canada was starting an investigation, the players who were in Room 209 that night began a group chat. The Crown has suggested there was collusion, but McLeod tells other players in the group chat that they need to tell the truth. "When I read through this group chat — it's just so difficult to determine what's going on here," Leaman said. "Are these guys getting together to collude, to create a narrative that assists them because they know they've done something that's questionable, if not just wrong? Or is this a situation where they're concerned about something that was consensual and they felt it was consensual at the time, but now they're looking back and they're a little bit worried?" Puchala said: "You have young men here that are sort of trying to grapple with what's going on and it doesn't necessarily seem like they really think that it's going to be sort of a criminal affair. "It's really, I think they're nervous about dealing with their families and with Hockey Canada, so in these messages, there's a lot a lot going on. "It has to be analyzed," said Puchala, who noted Carroccia has to think about these exchanges without having heard from many of the players who were in the group chat. "If there's uncertainty about something, like, it can look bad," Puchala said, but pointed out the judge will apply a standard of reasonable doubt that is very high. "Any sort of question about that lack of certainty usually favours the defence."
