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Hockey's most famous hazing incident hasn't broken Akim Aliu – Sportsnet
n 2005, Akim Aliu was a sixth-overall pick in the OHL draft beginning his first year with the Windsor Spitfires, when a bunch of older players forced four rookies to strip and locked them all in the cramped bathroom at the back of the team bus on the drive back from a pre-season road trip. Aliu didn’t like it one bit and refused to play along. He also wasn’t going to suffer that treatment in silence.
One note read: [Coach and GM Moe] Mantha asked if Steve Downie spat on the floor and asked [Akim] to clean it up. Akim said it was not Steve D but another veteran [and] he would [not] name names as he did not want a player sitting in the stands. Another: [Owner] Steve Riolo asked about any racial slurs. Akim indicated not, but “guys have jokingly … and that’s the way I took it … [called me] ‘the eight-ball.’”
Hockey's most famous hazing incident hasn't broken Akim Aliu – Sportsnet
n 2005, Akim Aliu was a sixth-overall pick in the OHL draft beginning his first year with the Windsor Spitfires, when a bunch of older players forced four rookies to strip and locked them all in the cramped bathroom at the back of the team bus on the drive back from a pre-season road trip. Aliu didn’t like it one bit and refused to play along. He also wasn’t going to suffer that treatment in silence.
One note read: [Coach and GM Moe] Mantha asked if Steve Downie spat on the floor and asked [Akim] to clean it up. Akim said it was not Steve D but another veteran [and] he would [not] name names as he did not want a player sitting in the stands. Another: [Owner] Steve Riolo asked about any racial slurs. Akim indicated not, but “guys have jokingly … and that’s the way I took it … [called me] ‘the eight-ball.’”
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