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“That was the first time that I was aware of any of this.”

Caryk said she’s never discussed the situation with Karlsson’s wife.

“Melinda has never come to me with any of this. Nothing,” Caryk said.

Hoffman said he only learned of these accusations when he got home and he immediately reached out to Karlsson by text.

“I sent a message out to him saying, ‘I’m aware of the situation and I’d like to discuss it and go through it with you,’ ” Hoffman said.

“It wasn’t until four days later that he spoke with me. We ended up doing it after practice, walking out of the rink, and basically what was said was, ‘I’d like to see what your point of the story is,’ and all he had to say was, ‘We know it was Monika,’ and I asked whether it was on Instagram? Twitter? Just show something or prove something.

“They wouldn’t do so at the time. All he said was that they knew it was her and it was the only thing mentioned.”

Caryk and Hoffman said they’re willing to work with Karlsson family to show that they weren’t involved.

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“We reached out to Erik at the end of May to try and figure this out together and privately before something like this happened,” Hoffman said. “We got nothing back.

“All of a sudden, a few days later, we see this article all over social media and all over the world. There’s a few times we’ve tried to go to them to get to the bottom of it and discuss it and see what they had to say and let us defend ourselves, but there’s been no option to do that.”

So, why does Caryk think she’s being accused?