WFP Exclusive It was midway through Sheldon Kennedy’s seventh NHL season, and the Calgary newspapers were calling for his head. The life and destructive legacy of Graham James It was midway through Sheldon Kennedy’s seventh NHL season, and the Calgary newspapers were calling for his head. After discovering Kennedy had collapsed into tears and was unable to suit up for the Calgary Flames’ April 8, 1996 game against the Edmonton Oilers, they published stories he had suffered a nervous breakdown. About this series Graham James was last seen in a courtroom in the summer of 2015. Appearing via video link from a Quebec prison, the disgraced junior hockey coach pleaded guilty in a Swift Current courtroom to sexual assault on one of his players during the early 1990s, and was sentenced to two additional years behind bars.