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Lawyers for members of Canada's 2018 world juniors team suggest assault accuser wanted 'wild night'

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Hockey Canada Sexual Assault

Carter Hart, right, one of five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team charged with sexual assault last year for an incident that allegedly took place in June 2018, leaves the London Courthouse in London, Ontario, Friday, May 2, 2025. (Geoff Robins/The Canadian Press via AP)

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LONDON, Ontario (AP) — An attorney for one of five hockey players charged with sexual assault suggested Tuesday that the accuser was the one to bring up calling other players into a hotel room in June 2018 because she wanted to have a “wild night.