NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly says he expects a decision soon from the league on the status of five former Hockey Canada players acquitted at trial in a high-profile sexual assault case.

Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote were acquitted July 24 in London, Ont. McLeod was also acquitted of a separate charge of being a party to the offence of sexual assault.

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The ruling, which was handed down more than seven years after the encounter in a hotel room at the heart of the case, capped off a complex trial that captur

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