The Soo Greyhounds completed their annual sexual assault prevention training this month, part of a league-wide program aimed at teaching players about consent and respect. Article content

The sessions, delivered by Sarah Paciocco, a sexual assault and abuse crisis counsellor at Women In Crisis Algoma, took on added weight last week as the NHL announced it would allow five former junior players acquitted in this summer’s high-profile sexual assault case to return. Article content Article content

When the league said Dillon Dubé, Cal Foote, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart, and Michael McLeod would be eligible to sign contracts by Oct. 15 and play by Dec. 1, the decision landed with a thud for Paciocco, who has led the Greyhounds’ ONSIDE training for about a decade.

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