Alumnus opinion: In response to Tyler King

Rob Finger November 6, 2026 3 min read As I was sitting at my desk at WETM 18 in Elmira, I was on the phone with one of my good Oswego friends and colleagues. He called to say that one of our former professors was kicked out of his 20-man fantasy hockey league and that a spot had opened up for me to join. Just then, my WETM colleague sent me a photo with the caption “Do you know this man?” My friend then put it better than I ever could: Not as well as we thought. On Monday, Nov. 2, Cameron Shutts of The Oswegonian broke the news that former SUNY Oswego broadcasting professor Tyler King had been arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at the Lansdowne border crossing, just after the Thousand Islands Bridge, on Friday, Oct. 30. Officials say this was the result of a two-year investigation by the RCMP into the sexual exploitation of junior hockey players at King’s former team, the Okotoks Oilers.

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