Shane Pinto being suspended 41 games for sports gambling

[Ugene Magic]

I guess that's why Jagr in fact went to the KHL, he served a 3 year suspension for all his gambling habits.

 

[Divine]

The investigation was probably under way before the season started. Although they just reached a verdict I assume…? I dunno it’s kinda messed up. It’s like they’re factoring his time missed due to not having a contract as time served..

It still doesn't make sense.

How do you count games towards a suspension when the player never had an NHL contract? He couldn't play those games if he wanted to, it's no different than suspending an injured player retroactively.

 

[Evergreen]

This suspension is brought to you by Bet365.

 

[guyzeur]

If he's betting on Toronto Raptors games, and his buddy on the Raptors is betting on Ottawa Senators games, I'd sure have questions about the integrity of the game

I was thinking the exact same thing

 

[red devil]

He didn't bet on NHL games

 

[MMC]

 

[Mattilaus]

Punishment doesn't fit the crime here. Way too much given how little other players get for trying to take someone's head off.

 

[HBK27]

Can someone explain the logic as to why NHL players are not allowed to be on other sports?

 

[notsocommonsense]

Gambling? Who cares? Unless he betting on his own team. For f*** sakes the NHL promote gambling all over the place. We live in an ass backwards world it’s pathetic.

If he bet on hockey at all it amounts to insider information

 

[deleted user]

What a joke of a league. Lol.

 

[swiftwin]

New cap circumvention found!

 

[Divine]

I think he'll play down the stretch for Ottawa. There won't be anything holding him back.

He needs a contract. The same thing that was holding him back up until today.

 

[GOilers88]

So the league promotes the shit out of sports gambling at every opportunity, then suspends a player for sports gambling.

Makes sense.

 

[Chips]

Did he at least win?

So the league promotes the shit out of sports gambling at every opportunity, then suspends a player for sports gambling.

Makes sense.

Presumably betting on NHL games which would be a huge issue Edit: they actually didn’t say NHL games? Then I don’t get jt

 

[Little Psycho]

This is where they draw the line? Joke of a league.

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

Can someone explain the logic as to why NHL players are not allowed to be on other sports?

I think NFL players are allowed to, outside team facilities. Traditionally you couldn't bet at all becuase you might be indebted to a bookie/mobster, who could use that leverage to affect the outcome of games. But now with legitmate businesses hosting online gambling sites I"m not sure.

 

[Divine]

Wasn't Evander Kane literally in debt for betting on non-NHL games?

How does Pinto get 41 games? This isn't adding up at all.

 

[Bandit]

So he didn't bet on NHL games, but still gets a 41 game suspension? That's wild.

 

[swiftwin]

I assume Pinto probably doesn't play this year

I guess Dorion won the battle but lost the war.

41 game suspension. 82 game season.

 

[Madap]

He didn’t even gamble on NHL games? League is an absolute joke.

 

[SpezDispenser]

He needs a contract. The same thing that was holding him back up until today.

Now, he'll get a small one. Under a mil - and he'll like it.

 

[Saga of the Elk]

I need details.

Without having to read through 10 pages, what is the rule for gambling in the NHL?

No gambling on your team? No gambling on NHL games in general?

Friedman wrote, "wagering on any NHL game, even where legal, is “absolutely prohibited,” and will “constitute conduct that is dishonourable, prejudicial to, or against the welfare of the League or the game of hockey."

However, Pinto is not accused of gambling on an NHL game. That could be typical Bettman cageiness -- i.e. it was, say, a parlay of a different kind that did involve NHL games, or he bet on some other sport or outcome -- the WNBA or Golden Globes perhaps.

I find it a little hard to believe that if two NHL players put $100 on a Michigan football game this would happen.

He may have joined a fantasy football league.

 

[Divine]

41 game suspension. 82 game season.

His cap hit will be even higher on game 42. It's prorated.

 

[Naych_PHX]

So the league promotes the shit out of sports gambling at every opportunity, then suspends a player for sports gambling.

Makes sense.

Do as we say, not as we do.

 

[Edgelord]

ok this makes no sense on soo many fronts.
-He didn't bet on NHL games
-a player not under contract will have games counted towards a suspension.