Confirmed with Link: Carter Hart Officially Charged With One Count Of Sexual Assault (Per His Lawyers); Non-roster, salary cap info in OP

[MayonnaiseOreo]

Alternatively, being found innocent of a crime doesn't necessarily mean they didn't do it.

Well, being found innocent would mean they didn't do it. What you're looking for is being found not guilty. Being found innocent would absolve you of wrongdoing based on proving that you didn't do anything wrong.

 

[BillDineen]

Classic Jamie

 

[renberg]

You are drafting teenagers. Unless they've already done something, I find it hard to believe you are going to reliably weed out these guys with interviews

Unfortunately, stuff like this isn't that rare with teenage males

Are you kidding me? Sexual assault such as pulling a train on an inebriated woman isn't rare with teenage males? You run in a rough neighborhood. Sure it happens but it isn't a common thing.

 

[IronMarshal]

All 5 players accounted for now.

Isn’t that actually 6 players? Hart, McCleod, Dube, Foote, Formenton, and Comtois? The last two nobody in the league seems to want, unless Comtios is just a player no one wants. The other 5 are on leave so maybe that is it?

 

[FromOyVey2Matvei]

Carter Hart is really embracing this “new era of orange” thing a little too much.

 

[BringBackHakstol]

Are you kidding me? Sexual assault such as pulling a train on an inebriated woman isn't rare with teenage males? You run in a rough neighborhood. Sure it happens but it isn't a common thing.

"Rare" is a matter of context, but if you don't think this kind of stuff is flying around at every college campus at minimum, I'm not sure what to say

 

[freakydallas13]

Well, being found innocent would mean they didn't do it. What you're looking for is being found not guilty. Being found innocent would absolve you of wrongdoing based on proving that you didn't do anything wrong.

It is possible that people who were found innocent are not actually innocent. Same goes for being found guilty.

 

[TheKingPin]

I have to say I like Briere. We are used to exaggerations and gas lighting in pressers. Briere just states the facts and does it well. With Cutter and now Hart, he will have a chance to show up big starting at the deadline.

 

[Audible Velvet]

"Rare" is a matter of context, but if you don't think this kind of stuff is flying around at every college campus at minimum, I'm not sure what to say

One thing for sure when it comes to sexual assault, you can’t assume anything. I dated a woman years ago, who was a childhood sexual assault counselor. It is so common. It’s absolutely staggering. The statistics are horrifying.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

"Rare" is a matter of context, but if you don't think this kind of stuff is flying around at every college campus at minimum, I'm not sure what to say

Then college campuses need to be better. I never saw a gang rape when I went but maybe I ran in different circles. “What about..” finger pointing doesn’t do anything here. It’s not a boys will be boys thing

 

[ellja3]

Still processing this information

 

[Jettany]

Pretty obvious now. Unreal. Really is.

 

[BringBackHakstol]

Then college campuses need to be better. I never saw a gang rape when I went but maybe I ran in different circles. “What about..” finger pointing doesn’t do anything here. It’s not a boys will be boys thing

No doubt... I hope you aren't construing what I said as excusing anything.

 

[freakydallas13]

Isn’t that actually 6 players? Hart, McCleod, Dube, Foote, Formenton, and Comtois? The last two nobody in the league seems to want, unless Comtios is just a player no one wants. The other 5 are on leave so maybe that is it?

Did Comtios ask for personal leave recently too? I haven't seen that reported.

 

[ellja3]

Pretty obvious now. Unreal. Really is.

Very much so.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Isn’t that actually 6 players? Hart, McCleod, Dube, Foote, Formenton, and Comtois? The last two nobody in the league seems to want, unless Comtios is just a player no one wants. The other 5 are on leave so maybe that is it?

Comtois hasn't asked for leave

 

[Mayo Masseuse]

I just saw your username and was hoping maybe you could DM me.

Are you cantankerous?

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Comtois hasn't asked for leave

I think him possibly being implicated in all of this is why he didn't get an NHL job, but only an AHL one.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

It’s not a conversation the world is largely ready to have, but good people do make mistakes. The worst thing you did in your life can be an outlier. Or it can be the impetus for a person to change.

Even if Carter Hart is guilty as sin of this thing 6 years ago, it doesn’t mean he’s a horrible person now.

But he does need to own up to his actions, take responsibility and face the consequences.

Maybe it’s another Duke lacrosse, Trevor Bauer, or Matt Araiza situation?

It’s not like false sexual assault allegations never happen.

Hart is entitled to a defense, & best-case-scenario he is able show his innocence.

 

[BillDineen]

 

[BritainStix]

It's strange that Carter put out the statement years ago that he had nothing to do with this incident. The others on indefinite absence didn't.

What I don't understand, is that this case was originally settled out of court right? The plaintiff was granted 3.5 mil in damages. So we essentially know that the players are guilty, but I thought the court settlement would end that?

 

[Mayo Masseuse]

You: confusing Mordor and Moria
Me, a scholar: calling Moria Khazad-dûm as I gaze into the Palantir located in Valinor

Is this whilst passing chudsy, broccoli infused cheddar into an undying toilet?

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I am considering the source. No need to point that out.

“It’s why they’d tried to trade him over the summer,” is a WILD statement.

 

[GKJ]

I think him possibly being implicated in all of this is why he didn't get an NHL job, but only an AHL one.

The teams do know what’s in the investigation but it could be just a matter that those players are persona non grata until they’re cleared or the situation is resolved. Probably not insignificant that he went to the AHL while Formenton went to Switzerland. But the situation with the team he is on is different too.

 

[BillDineen]

It's strange that Carter put out the statement years ago that he had nothing to do with this incident. The others on indefinite absence didn't.

What I don't understand, is that this case was originally settled out of court right? The plaintiff was granted 3.5 mil in damages. So we essentially know that the players are guilty, but I thought the court settlement would end that?

These would be criminal charges