Injured Canadian Junior Hockey Player Sues Seven Defendants

By John T. Wendt, J.D., M.A., Professor Emeritus, Ethics and Business Law - University of St. Thomas Isaac Dixon was an 18-year-old hockey defenseman from Rothsay, New Brunswick who played for the  New Brunswick’s Grand Falls Rapids in Canada’s Junior Hockey League.  On a December 30, 2020, game between Grand Falls Rapids and the Edmundston Blizzard, Dixon was checked from behind into the boards and fell to the ice. [i]  Videos show the incident and injury.[ii]  A