Two minor hockey players in Nova Scotia are scheduled to stand trial early next year for alleged sexual assaults that were reported after a hazing ritual last fall.

Neither of the accused appeared in provincial youth court on Monday when a judge in Truro, NS, confirmed the trial for both youths will start Feb. 22 in the same courthouse.

Eight days have been scheduled for the trial in February, March and April, with a pretrial conference set for Aug. 20 of this year.

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None of the allegations has been tested in court, and the identities of the accused and the complainants are protected from publication under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

Court documents show the two accused — both 14 at the time of the alleged offenses — have each been charged with two counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual assault with a weapon, which police have described as a mini hockey stick.

The charges stem from alleged assaults on three victims on Oct. 3, somewhere in Colchester County, the municipality north of the Halifax region.

As well, one of the accused is facing a separate assault charge that stems from an alleged assault on one of the three victims between Oct. 1, 2025, and Dec. 30, 2025, in the Truro, NS, area.