HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: Off-Season Edition

[red devil]

 

[Habaneros]

Read full story here GARRIOCH: Senators centre Shane Pinto suspended for gambling violations

 

[JianYang]

I'm gonna blatantly steal a joke from the main boards.

This suspension is brought to you by Draft Kings.

 

[Paddyjack]

Suspend a player for gambling while half your ads are about sports betting sites.

My guess is they found evidence he gambled illegally. Because if he gambled on other sports through legal means, then I don't know why they'd suspend him, especially if they found no evidence he bet on NHL games.

You have to look at their contract I guess, maybe players are forbidden to gamble in any sports

 

[Habaneros]

I'm gonna blatantly steal a joke from the main boards.

This suspension is brought to you by Draft Kings.

lol...they sold out to the gambling industry for $$$...now they are worried....

He will have to spend time with the club’s AHL affiliate in Belleville before he can even think about returning to the NHL."“This is important because it goes to the integrity of the game,” a league source told this newspaper Thursday. “It’s the appearance of impropriety. That’s the problem. You can’t have that as a league.Once you start to tarnish the system, especially with your new partners in the gambling world, it’s not good. You’ve kicked the wrong hornet’s nest. The appearance of the integrity of games? Woah GARRIOCH: Senators centre Shane Pinto suspended for gambling violations

 

[the valiant effort]

FREE PETE ROSE

 

[CDN24]

Hé’s suspended because he didn’t use bet99?

So its 41 games , gambling related and he did not bet on NHL games. Was he the the bookie, running a sports book competing with the NHL's many official gambling partners and not giving the league their cut? Loansharking? is he Theodores long lost half brother. NHL statement raises more questions than it answers

 

[bonneaug]

Maybe they just did him a solid? “Unusual activity” can be a rule break, or sudden crazy amounts of cash coming in..

Just, maybe, he has a gambling problem, he started borrowing insane amounts from dubious sources, account was flagged, the NHLPA or league reached out, and Pinto decided he wanted to join a program/get help without the public disclose of his addiction. Hence the NHL’s blurry “no further comments” statement but also lenient waving of the rule if he doesn’t sign before Christmas. Could explain the ban without any obvious rule break.

 

[red devil]

 

[Frankenheimer]

What a joke. Every ad is about gambling.

 

[Habaneros]

Garry Bettman in 2015

“I don’t worry about the integrity of the game,” Bettman said. “Our players are professionals. Their integrity, their values are right on, so that’s not the issue from our standpoint." https://www.si.com/nhl/2015/06/06/gary-bettman-legal-gambling-integrity

 

[Skip Bayless]

Yeah man. This is straight up goofy coming from a league that promotes gambling.

 

[Redux91]

I love how Pinto goes from rubbing his hands together and licking his lips for the 3-4 year multi million dollar deal that he was apparently gonna spend most of it on gambling anyway

Only to end up NOT getting the contract, HAS to sign QO, WONT play half the year, should probably not gamble again
And is now a NHL red flag lmao

Wow

 

[calder candidate]

Now we know why they were so agressive/ actively low balling him with seemingly zero fear of repercussion…

 

[Team_Spirit]

 

[Shred]

So NHL players are allowed to play Fantasy Football leagues with each other for what I can only assume are fairly large sums of money for most people, but are not allowed to “gamble” on other sports?

 

[salbutera]

Hé’s suspended because he didn’t use bet99?

I read it more as bet99 contacted NHL and said one of their players is betting on sports based on monitoring activity

 

[Shred]

I read it more as bet99 contacted NHL and said one of their players is betting on sports based on monitoring activity

Seems really strange that a gambling website would snitch on its own users. Probably a lot of guys who want to hide their gambling…

 

[Tyson]

I guess Pinto won't have to worry about a contract for a while

 

[River Meadow]

I guess Pinto won't have to worry about a contract for a while

He's really lived up to the Pinto name thus far.


(Ford Pinto was a disaster for Ford...)

 

[Walrus26]

Shades of the scandal in international cricket around certain players bowling x number of wides or no-balls "to order" to satisfy 3rd party betting interests paying them for such services, as opposed to out and out match fixing (which isn't unknown, but is a lot rarer).

Seeing as the betting industry looks to take people's money for all sorts of in-game events rather than just the scoreline, this wouldn't be a outlandish hypothesis.

 

[Tyson]

Just noticed that promising young forward Dawson Mercer has zero points in 6 games, didn't expect that.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

How stupid do you have to be to have an account with an NHL partner? Any where else even an illegal site makes more sense.

 

[salbutera]

Just noticed that promising young forward Dawson Mercer has zero points in 6 games, didn't expect that.

Flop!!!

Should dispatched to backwoods of Uppper Mongolia till he develops “properly” - every NJD hockey ops management & development personnel should be fired

 

[DAChampion]

It feels like the league did Ottawa a favour.