He looked at me and saw a black boy with a weird accent - and didn’t like me because of it. "He had nothing but hate in his heart back then. "I don’t really give a crap what he thinks about the way I just described him. Blood gushing down."Īkim says he felt forced to drop his gloves and fight Downie in an effort to save face in front of his teammates.Īkim goes directly at Downie in the article - saying, "I went through hell at the hands of a racist sociopath." but Akim refused.īecause he refused, Akim says Downie "shoved his fiberglass stick through my mouth." "He was two years older than me and a rising star, and he wielded his power over me like I was nothing - like I was subhuman."Īliu also says Downie and other teammates tried to strip him naked on the back of the team bus with other rookies as part of a hazing ritual. He’d make fun of my clothes, the way I spoke." "And then he began to belittle me in front of my teammates, the coaches, whoever would listen to him.
"Then he took my gear outside and threw it on the roof." "First couple of practices he put Tiger Balm in my jock," Aliu says. detailing several alleged incidents of abuse at the hands of Downie.įYI, 33-year-old Downie was a 1st round NHL Draft pick in 2005 - and played 9 seasons in the league.īut, Aliu says before he got to the big stage, Downie terrorized him while both players were members of the Windsor Spitfires, a team in the OHL - the best junior league in Canada. and the allegations are shocking.Īliu - who is black - spelled out the whole thing in a strongly worded op-ed for The Player's Tribune. Akim Aliu says ex-NHL player Steve Downie is a "racist sociopath" who "made my life a living hell" during their junior hockey days.
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