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A feature length documentary exploring former NHLer Sheldon Kennedy's journey from young hockey player sexually abused by his junior hockey coach, Graham James, to Kennedy's work today as a crusader for victims of abuse in Canada and worldwide. During a speaking engagement in Ontario, Canada Sheldon meets two university students who disclose the sexual abuse they suffered and ask him for help. The film tells the story of these three victims of child sexual abuse and the challenges they face while attempting to recover from the horrific trauma they suffered as children. ....
REGINA The Regina Pats are preparing for the season to get under way next week, after arriving in the Western Hockey League s East Division Hub on the weekend. “I think everyone’s extremely excited to go,” said Logan Nijhoff, one of the Pats alternate captains in 2019. “It’s been 366 days, so everyone should be in the best shape of their life.” The seven WHL teams competing in the hub arrived in Regina on Saturday. Dorm rooms at the University of Regina and Luther College will be their home for the next two months. The players haven’t been in a team setting since March 2020. ....
The life and destructive legacy of Graham James To ensure Graham James would survive his stay in prison, the disgraced junior hockey coach would sometimes be required to move from one facility to the next. Serial sexual abusers are never popular behind prison walls. But because of the high public profile of some of his victims, including NHLers Theoren Fleury and Sheldon Kennedy, there were many on the inside who were motivated to deliver vigilante justice. About this series Graham James was last seen in a courtroom in the summer of 2015. Appearing via video link from a Quebec prison, the disgraced junior hockey coach pleaded guilty in a Swift Current courtroom to sexual assault on one of his players during the early 1990s, and was sentenced to two additional years behind bars. ....