OTTAWA — The longest-serving hockey billet in OHL history, who has personal relationships with former NHL hockey stars the world over, is being prosecuted for alleged sex crimes against two boys, the Citizen has learned.
Neil Joynt, 73, was quietly arrested in Kingston last fall on charges of indecent assault and sexual assault against two boys, both athletes at the time.
The retired gym teacher and former OHL billet for 33 years hasn’t told his hockey-star friends about the case, not even his longtime fishing buddy, Eric Lindros, a star-power forward in the 1990s. He befriended Lindros after younger brother Brett Lindros lived with him before getting drafted to the NHL. Lindros visits Joynt a couple times a year, including Christmas holidays, according to Joynt.
Joynt told the Citizen in an exclusive interview he fears the child-sex charges — which he says are false — will rock Canada’s hockey world. (more...)
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