CALGARY - A former Junior A hockey broadcaster and executive who worked with teams across Western Canada is facing five charges related to alleged sexual offences involving underage male hockey players from Alberta and Saskatchewan, as RCMP investigate whether there are additional victims. “Our investigation is solely focused on our three (victims) as of right now,” said RCMP Cpl. Dan Campbell. “We’ll be welcoming anyone that believes that they were a victim as well to come forward.” Tyler Robb King, 39, has been charged with three counts of child luring, one count of sexual exploitation and one count of making child pornography. RCMP say the three alleged victims were male hockey players from Alberta and Saskatchewan who were under 18 at the time of the alleged offences. All three played hockey within the Okotoks Oilers Athletic Association. According to court documents, the three child-luring charges involve separate alleged victims, with offences said to have occurred at or near Okotoks, Alta. The first allegedly occurred between June 2021 and April 2023, the second between January 2021 and October 2024, and the third between September and October 2022. King was a broadcaster and assistant general manager of business operations for the Okotoks Oilers hockey team until the summer of 2024. The investigation began after the organization contacted police about a former employee. Campbell said the Okotoks Oilers reported “that one of their former employees was soliciting and compensating players for intimate images and sexual videos.” In a statement Monday, the Okotoks Oilers said they were “not aware of these allegations while this individual was with our organization.” “After his departure, we received information that, while unverified at the time, raised enough concern that we felt it needed a closer look. We reviewed it carefully and passed it to the RCMP.” The organization said it is co-operating with investigators and that the safety and well-being of its players remain its highest priority. King joined the Okotoks Oilers in 2021, where he spent three seasons before moving to British Columbia to work with the Nanaimo Clippers as vice-president of business operations. “King has been employed and has worked with hockey teams in Fort McMurray, Okotoks, Brooks and Nanaimo,” Campbell said. The Brooks Bandits also issued a statement Monday, saying the organization is aware of the case and will co-operate with local RCMP. In 2025, King joined the State University of New York at Oswego as a professor of practice specializing in multimedia journalism and sports, according to his university biography. The biography also identifies him as a faculty adviser to the campus television station. Police say King was arrested Friday at the Lansdowne border crossing near Kingston, Ont., after living and working in the United States. He was remanded into custody following a judicial interim release hearing and is expected to be returned to Alberta to face the charges. The RCMP investigation remains ongoing, with police working alongside other jurisdictions as they seek to identify any additional potential victims. None of the allegations have been proven in court. ‘If bad adults are in positions of power, bad things can happen’ For Greg Gilhooly, a lawyer and survivor of sexual abuse by former junior hockey coach Graham James, the allegations bring back painful memories. “The decades kind of fall away. And I’m taken back to when I was a teen and, you know, trying to remember just how vulnerable I was at the time,” he said. Gilhooly said young athletes can be particularly vulnerable when adults hold significant influence over their futures. “Because so much is at play and adults have control over your future, if bad adults are in positions of power, bad things can happen.” Doug King, a professor of justice studies at Mount Royal University, said the allegations highlight the seriousness of potential abuses of trust and authority. “If you are under the age of 18 and a person in power, trust or authority uses that power, trust, authority to exploit you, that’s serious,” he said. Gilhooly also warned against dismissing allegations simply because someone is well regarded in the community. “Anybody is capable of everything, and you don’t ever really know anybody,” he said. For anyone considering reporting past abuse, Gilhooly said the decision must remain their own. “I would never tell somebody to come forward who wasn’t comfortable coming forward. But I would say that coming forward has been a good thing for me in terms of my recovery.”
