After Kyle Beach went out with his story and how he was subjected to sexual abuse, the problems have also been noticed in Sweden.
Mainly through Erik Granqvist, who recently told about his experiences of abuse in ice hockey.
The Swedish Ice Hockey Association is now talking about how to proceed to secure the environment in Swedish ice hockey.
"I get sad and upset when I take part in what he and others have experienced in ice hockey.
The environment that will bring joy, friends for life and the opportunity to develop as a hockey player and human being.
That environment and that context instead gave scars for life, scars that may never disappear ", writes Anders Wahlström, development manager at the association, in a column.
Even though work on these issues is ongoing, there is still a need to address the problems further.
"I want to believe that the ice hockey environment is much better today than it was 20, 30, 40 years ago, I want to believe that there are fewer wedging rituals, fewer towel rattles, hard tape balls in the locker room and less penalistic behaviors where the younger players must obey the older in our associations ”.
"But I do not know, so I have to assume that it can happen in any environment, in your or in my association and act accordingly.
The work of creating safe environments in ice hockey is not about someone else doing something.
It's about what you, I and everyone else in Swedish ice hockey do.
We all have a responsibility and let us now avoid the trap where everyone's responsibility becomes nobody's responsibility ", Wahlström continues.
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The sex scandal in the Chicago Blackhawks in 60 seconds