Hockey Reckoning Amid Renewed Call for Independent Body to Probe Abuse

Calgary Flames head coach Bill Peters gives instructions during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Pittsburgh on Feb. 16, 2019. The Flames won 5-4. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar

VANCOUVER—Amid a reckoning in the NHL and mounting allegations of abuse and harassment in university sports, athletes are renewing a call for an independent body to probe complaints and oversee a universal code of conduct.

Former Olympic skier Allison Forsyth says if such an organization had existed in the late 1990s, it likely could have prevented her alleged abuse by coach Bertrand Charest.