The sex assault case against five pro hockey players — all Hockey Canada alumni — has garnered widespread public attention and led to a reckoning about the handling of sexual

Here’s everything you need to know before the trial begins. The allegations became public in late May 2022, when it was reported that Hockey Canada settled a lawsuit with a woman — referred to as E.M. in previously filed court documents — who said she was sexually assaulted by several members of the 2018 national junior team.

Prosecutors allege five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team “did what they wanted” to an intoxicated young woman in a London, Ontario, hotel room in June of that year after she had consensual sex with one of them.