The next day, there’s a golf tournament for the team, as has been brought up previously in this trial.

E.M. has testified, for instance, that the men talked about having to get up early for the tournament.

Before his testimony, Steenbergen provided group text messages to investigators and the jury is looking at them now.

A group chat started by Dillon Dubé asks the players to add anyone who was in the room that night.

The group chat includes:

• Carter Hart.
• Jake Bean.
• Cal Foote.
• Dillon Dubé.
• Maxime Comtois.
• Drake Batherson.
• Michael McLeod.
• Brett Howden.
• Sam Steel.
• Alex Formenton.
• Tyler Steenbergen.

On June 26, 2018, Dubé sends a message saying, “There are no criminal charges it’s hockey Canada code of conduct and they are investigating on what happened that might (sic) so it won’t happen again.”

Bean asks, “Could we get in trouble for it or no?” and Dubé responds, “I don’t think so.” McLeod says, “We all need to say the same thing if we get interviewed can’t have different stories or make anything up.”

Steenbergen says he didn’t see many of these messages until later because he was at a development camp in Arizona for players who’d just been drafted to NHL teams.