Former Quebec junior hockey players released as they appeal sentences for sex assault

Two former Quebec junior hockey players have been released as they appeal their prison sentences for sexually
assaulting a minor at a hotel in June 2021 during a celebration of a Victoriaville Tigres championship win.

On Thursday, Court of Appeal Justice Geneviève Cotnam granted Nicolas Daigle and Massimo Siciliano permission to appeal their sentences, which were for 32 and 30 months, respectively.

The ex-players were each ordered to put up $2,000 bail and were released on various conditions pending their appeal hearing on Nov. 20.

Lawyers for the two 21-year-olds argued that the sentences delivered on Monday are too severe, and had asked instead for their clients to serve sentences in the community.

At the time of the assault, both men were members of the Victoriaville team in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League, and the club was celebrating on June 5, 2021, after winning the championship trophy.

The victim said she was assaulted by the players that night in a Quebec City-area hotel, and that Daigle also filmed her without her knowledge.