TORONTO — An Ontario Court of Appeal judge has denied former NHL player Daniel Carcillo's attempt to certify a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian Hockey League, its three major junior leagues and their teams over disturbing allegations of sexual assault and abuse of teenage players.

The suit, initially filed in 2020 with Carcillo, Garrett Taylor and Stephen Quirk as the leading plaintiffs, covers events in the Ontario Hockey League, Western Hockey League and Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League going back to 1975.

In his decision Monday, Chief Justice Michael H. Tulloch called the plaintiffs' objectives admirable, but said the proposed case was of "an unprecedented scale and complexity."

Tulloch upheld an earlier ruling by Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Perell, who in Febru

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