The outside of the mask was decorated with the words “boys will be boys, power, kings.” The inside read “pain, suicidal, need love.”
Another mask read “smart, focused, money” on the exterior, and “angry, unsure, bi” on the interior.
The masks, created by university hockey players — some who played major junior — were a research project presented Friday at Hockey Canada’s Beyond The Boards Summit.
The two-day summit tackled elite men’s hockey, which dominates the sport’s culture in Canada, and the toxic masculinity in it that can also breed racism, sexism and homophobia in the game.
The masks, which were distributed among the
