from Dave Feschuk of the Toronto Star,

Wayward coaches and bully players, beware. What happens in the dressing room might no longer stay in the dressing room. It might one day surface on, say, your social media feed. And it could have life-changing consequences.

There’s reason to think November of 2019 might go down as a tipping point in the transformation of hockey culture. Remembrance Day brought the end to Don Cherry’s three-decade run on “Hockey Night in Canada,” this after Cherry used his first-intermission bully pulpit to trade in anti-immigrant rhetoric. And it was the Nov. 20 firing of Mike Babcock, and a port-mortem analysis of the questionable mind games Babcock used during his four-plus seasons in Toronto, that appeared to inspire Aliu, who was born in Nigeria, to tweet an accusation that Peters used the N-word to disparage the hip-hop music Aliu played in the dressing room during his time with the Rockford IceHogs, the minor-league affiliate of the Blackhawks. Aliu, in one of his tweets, referred to Peters as Babcock’s “protégé” — alluding to Peters’s one-time status as a long-time assistant to Babcock.

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