{"id":433271,"date":"2023-10-19T20:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=433271"},"modified":"2023-10-19T20:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:23:14","slug":"calgary-flames-prospect-topi-ronni-facing-serious-legal-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/10\/19\/calgary-flames-prospect-topi-ronni-facing-serious-legal-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames Prospect Topi R\u00f6nni Facing Serious Legal Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Content warning: The following article contains references to sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Potentially troubling news has come in on <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/flames\/\" target=\"_self\">Calgary Flames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/07\/09\/2022-nhl-draft-grades\/\" target=\"_self\">prospect Topi R\u00f6nni<\/a> with allegations of rape. It is being reported that he will be facing criminal charges. The news was released from his Finnish club Tappara Tampere, and added that he has been removed from the team for now.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tappara announces that Topi R\u00f6nni (CGY) is facing criminal charges for rape. He\u2019ll be withdrawing from team activities until further notice: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o71ntsCs63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/o71ntsCs63<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Flames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Flames<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lassi Alanen (@lassialanen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lassialanen\/status\/1715062969149616465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Calgary Flame Prospect Topi R\u00f6nni Faces Criminal Charges Stemming From Rape Allegations<\/h2>\n<p>These appear to be very serious allegations against Topi R\u00f6nni. The team is making the right move in that he will not be involved with the team until further notice. Moreover, R\u00f6nni was informed today, Thursday, of him being required to attend court. We must emphasize at this time, the allegations against Topi R\u00f6nni have not been proven in court. Furthermore, Tappara <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/calgary-flames-prospect-topi-ronni-takes-leave-from-finnish-team-amid-rape-allegation-1.2023177\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released some details<\/a> on the situation. The alleged incident happened more than two years ago, but the call from the court did come earlier today. In addition, it was stated that at this time, no court date has been given.<\/p>\n<h3>Calgary Flames Organization Statement<\/h3>\n<p>Following the news, the Calgary Flames released a statement. The statement said: \u201cWe became aware of a potential legal issue involving Topi R\u00f6nni following our <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/07\/09\/2022-nhl-draft-grades\/\" target=\"_self\">selection of him in the 2022 NHL Draft<\/a>. We take the matter seriously and will let the legal process follow its due course. We have no further comment at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At this point, it appears that both organizations, Tappara and the Flames, are doing their due diligence. Both clubs realize that these are very serious allegations and that the court process takes precedence over all other activities. Once again, it must be stated, that right now, this is a court matter, and no determination can be assumed on Ronni\u2019s guilt or innocence. All parties are doing what they can to prevent distractions, why removing Ronni from the club is the proper decision, so the court proceedings can take 100% of the focus.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo: Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content warning: The following article contains references to sexual assault. Potentially troubling news has come in on Calgary Flames prospect Topi R\u00f6nni with allegations of rape. It is being reported that he will be facing criminal charges. The news was released from his Finnish club Tappara Tampere, and added that he has been removed from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":137084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4547,34,4548],"tags":[7304],"class_list":["post-433271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flames","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-topi-ronni"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}