Trial of ex-Canadian world junior hockey players in sexual assault case set for September 2025

Proceedings in London, Ont., to run for 8 weeks after months of legal pretrial meetings

Five players accused of sexually assaulting a woman after a London, Ont., gala celebrating their 2018 world junior hockey win will stand trial beginning in September 2025. 

The jury trial is expected to last eight weeks, beginning Sept. 8, 2025, in the southwestern Ontario city. 

The players face charges tied to an alleged group sexual assault in a player’s hotel room following a Hockey Canada Foundation gala and golf event on June 19, 2018.  

At the time they were charged early this year, Michael McLeod and Cal Foote were with the New Jersey Devils, Dillon Dubé was with the Calgary Flames and Carter Hart was with the Philadelphia Flyers. Their NHL contracts expired in July. Former NHLer Alex Formenton was playing in Switzerland at the time the charges were announced.

They face one count each of sexual assault; McLeod also faces one count of being party to the offence.