“I expected more upset members,” said NMHA president Lynda Carusi. “I would have thought someone would have got up to ask more. Maybe now that they’re home, people are more upset.”

For starters, what the heck was going on that no one noticed more than two mil’ missing from the till? This was, after all, theft over a six-month period from June 2018 until November.

“The biggest shock is the amount of money involved and the short period of time in which it happened,” said Whitchurch-Stouffville Minor Hockey Association president Brian MacKenzie.

“When I read the report, I thought at first it was $2,300. Then I reread it and went, ‘Oh, s---, that’s $2 million. That’s a lot of money.'

“I think everybody is on the same page. For the money to be missing that long without being detected - it’s not pocket change. I would have thought someone was overseeing it.”

Evidently, contingency funds help cover this loss, although surely that rainy-day fund could have been put to better use than to cover a massive theft. There is insurance, members were told. Beyond that, it’s fuzzy.

“I’d like to hear more from the OMHA,” said MacKenzie. “There were not as many questions as I would have thought.”

Even fewer answers behind the convenient shield of an ongoing police investigation. The OMHA again declined comment on Monday.

“This is a significant event in the OMHA,” said Kopsala. “I don’t think it was given the prominence it deserved. I would love to have had a formal memo about it.

“But I can see also how it could be an oversharing exercise that compromised the investigation.”

Something, anything.

— John Cudmore is a longtime, award-winning reporter. His Cuddy Shark column appears weekly.

