Bernard ‘Bernie’ Lynch, a former Saskatchewan junior hockey coach convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage player, is set to spend the next three years behind bars.
Lynch was found guilty of sexual assault and assault in December for inappropriately touching and then hitting the player, 17, while working as an assistant coach for the Western Hockey League’s Regina Pats in August 1988.
The former hockey coach shook his head repeatedly as Justice Peter Bergbusch handed a sentence of three years for sexual assault and 30 days for assault to be served concurrently in a federal penitentiary.
“Mr. Lynch took advantage of the culture of silence [in
