By Hockey Canada

CALGARY, Alta. – Hockey Canada and its Members have published their annual Tracking Maltreatment in Sanctioned Hockey report, as part of their collective efforts to better track, identify and respond to maltreatment in the sport.

The report includes nation-wide data collected during the 2023-24 season of behaviours that breach Section 11 – Maltreatment of the Hockey Canada Playing Rules, and reviews two independent complaint management mechanisms: Hockey Canada’s Independent Third Party (ITP) and the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner (OSIC).

“This year’s report is extremely important to better understand the behaviour that is occurring in our communities, as it now includes all tracked penalties and allegations of incidents related to Section 11 – Maltreatment, in addition to the statistics from OSIC and referenced data from the ITP,” said Natasha Johnston, vice-president of sport integrity for Hockey Canada. “Across the country, we are seeing much greater awareness of what constitutes maltreatment on and off the ice, which is encouraging as we seek to remove all forms of it from hockey.”

In December 2022, Hockey Canada and its Members published a report of all incidents of verbal taunts, insults or intimidation based on discriminatory grounds which occurred during the 2021-22 season, under Rule 11.4 – Discrimination.

Last year, the report expanded its scope to track more broad maltreatment behaviours, including the complaint intake data from the ITP and OSIC, tracking of Rule 11.4 penalties and allegations and pilot project data that tracked other maltreatment-related penalties with specific Members.

As part of its efforts to better prevent and address maltreatment behaviours, Hockey Canada will continue to make national reports on maltreatment publicly available and accessible on an annual basis as part of its overall sport integrity framework.

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