"Hockey people don't like outsiders knowing their business."

Former Western Hockey League player Ryan Phillips said the above to investigative journalist Rick Westhead in his book "We Breed Lions; Confronting Canada's Troubled Hockey Culture" to be released Tuesday by Penguin Random House Canada.

Westhead catalogues hockey's commercialism and tribalist creed, as well as other cultural factors that led to the sexual assault trial of five players on a Canadian junior team who went on to play in the NHL. They were acquitted in July.

From 16-year-olds moving away from home to learn societal norms from teammates only a few years their senior, to minor hockey becoming the bastion of the financially privileged, to those in power who either abused it or turned away from those who did, Westhead

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