sure. i'm not saying rutherford was fired because he encouraged donatelli to make a move on skaldes wife or anything but rutherford has a long history of having some pretty tumultuous "human relations" stuff going on with his teams
even if you take the reporting about his leaving the penguins at face value it's because he got into a heated argument with his boss (at the time the pens ceo) and -- by his own admission -- said some things he couldn't take back. then there's the stuff with rachel doerrie and the public bullying of boudreau here in vancouver. add that to the guerin coverup and...
anyways, i don't really care if rutherford is a nice guy or not. i'd prefer he was but i'm able to separate my fandom for the organization from my feelings for the people involved with the organization. if i wasn't i don't think i could even get past the aquilinis tbh. it does bug me tho when people act like other nhl organizations are hives of scum and villiany and turn a blind eye to the canucks org. if you're going to take a run at guerin for being a scumbag you should also take a run at rutherford for the same
The Doerrie thing is hilarious.
She was objectively a terrible hire.
She said some absolutely libellous stuff about the Canucks and Devils (and the Hughes family, and Petey, and MIller) on a podcast like a year or two before she was hired.
Hiring her was a fiasco. I have it on good authority that the team hired her without knowing about that podcast.
But where there's smoke, there's fire. I'm generally a proponent of believing women when they talk about running into casual misogyny in male-dominated workplaces. But Doerrie's situation just doesn't pass the smell test.
Like, do you think the Chicago tourism board is threatened by being the location where Jussi Smollett was 'mugged'?