Goes to the Hawks organization's failures employing a predator. I'll admit that's pushing the boundaries but overall, I think the Hawks organization deserves continued derision and criticism. That 2 million dollar fine didn't make a dent in shit; they more than made that back with season ticket purchases after winning the lottery.
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dracom
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hawks should be stripped out their next 4 first round picks. they need to actually be punished since their measly 2 million dollar fine was covered up the moment they "won" the draft lottery.
The NHL is bushleague. Owner and team employs a rapist and covers up rape allegations and the league will rig a lottery for you to get a generational talent.
But enough about Lemieux and the Penguins.
But enough about Lemieux and the Penguins.
SpezDispenser
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*sigh* Okay, okay, take another of our 1sts and let this go away.
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Bettman: "Shame on you, Chicago. By the way, Ottawa lost a few first rounders for messing up some petty technicality, want 'em?"
jackjohnson
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NHL is a joke when it comes to dishing out punishment. Probably the worst sports league in the world at judging the situation and determining the consequences for the party at fault. No wonder it's reffing is also the worst in any sports league and it's a reflection of how the NHL operates. Lots of corruption at the top. Ottawa getting royally screwed for administration screw up getting punished more severely compared to Blackhawks covering up a rape case in-order to win the cup. Whats a 2 million fine do? Nothing. If you want to fine them, at least fine them with a heavy fine like 25 million or 50 million or reduce their cap by 25% for 5 years. It's completely a joke how Chicago gets away with murder because they are the original 6 team and a major US team. It's definitely easier for the league to punish Ottawa, a small market team or Vancouver since they are Canadian teams and no one cares. Honestly a pathetic clown league imo. This is why I will always call Bettman, Buttman because he deserves that moniker for allowing corruption and favoritism.
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Clearly this means they should take another 1st rounder away from Ottawa.
EDIT: Well, not an original joke, clearly.
EDIT: Well, not an original joke, clearly.
ClydeLee
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Then petition the league to increase its amount of allowed fines and add that retroactively
Guys it is pretty simple why Ottawa got punished and Chicago didn't.
One is a Canadian small market team, and one is a large American market team. It really is that simple.
One is a Canadian small market team, and one is a large American market team. It really is that simple.
Ziggy Stardust
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Can’t take away the spotlight from Bedard. This will be quickly settled and swept under the rug.
SomeDude
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That’s not how the world works anymore despite the league’s best efforts as shown the first time the news broke about this.
ClydeLee
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It's about the same situations of Aldrich from before where the key staff involved are still banned from working in the league without approval from Betman.
What should happen other than quickly settling this and paying this player who lost opportunities and suffered? Is that not what you want to happen for him?
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jackjohnson
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People say Olympic organization have corruption and even they banned Russia from competing under the Russian name and stripped the medals off many Russian athletes after that PED coverup yet lame NHL still praises the 2010 Blackhawks cup win by not removing their organizations name off the cup. Pathetic
Ducks DVM
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I cannot wait for the apologists who clearly did not read and/or comprehend the Jenner and Block report to tell me to read the Jenner and Block report.
Disgusting behavior by the franchise, even worse by the league. Hopefully they have the decency to at least provide a firm and public “NO” to Quenneville and Bowman.
Disgusting behavior by the franchise, even worse by the league. Hopefully they have the decency to at least provide a firm and public “NO” to Quenneville and Bowman.
Actually we're not looking back on 2010. We're looking forward. And we're not going to talk about 2010. And we aren't going to talk about what happened. We're moving forward.
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And the emails that would have provided evidence were deleted, against policy.
At the time, McDonough said he would handle the situation, and he was regularly seeing ownership at the games.
Rather than a document commissioned and paid by ownership to protect ownership, an actual investigation would be independent and have followed up on the deleted emails, and dug into what was communicated at the time. Jenner and Block of course didn't do that, rather putting out the deliberately misleading claim that there was no evidence that ownership knew.
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jackjohnson
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The best thing the league can do is to remove the 2010 Blackhawks name off the cup. It's a disgrace to all the cup winning teams to have the 2010 Blackhawks as part of the winners that won the cup. Basically stained the holy grail.
Like the league is going to make any meaningful change based on the whims of HF posters. No I don't really feel like cessation of holding this shit organization accountable in the court of public opinion--which is what people associated with the Hawks really want--is warranted. If the league took some proportionate action, maybe the noise would be quieter.
