Shane Pinto being suspended 41 games for sports gambling

[tny760]

I don't have a problem with the league suspending for betting on games...

... But it's absolutely hilarious that this gets 41 games while guys slewfooting each other or cross-checking each other in the back of the head often doesn't draw a suspension at all.

Or to compare it to suspensions for off-ice behavior... Shane Pinto gets the same punishment for gambling that Slava Voynov got for choking his wife and putting her face through a TV.

i know where you're coming from but players gambling on their own games, by proxy or not, goes at the core of the integrity of the game, not objectionable behavior within the game

i'd really rather not find charts detailing the percentage likelihood that an NHL game is fixed like tennis is nowadays

there's a reason everyone still talks about pete rose

 

[Freudian]

The league should have had the suspension announcement be sponsored by DraftKings.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

As a guy that watched esports. You can't be on the sport you are in.

Too many connections. Straight up its just bad

 

[Strangle]

Slick move by management

Gives me the impression they might have had a hand in this coming to light

 

[Guttersniped]

They can’t say why because theres a legal investigation on going. Also the “hypocrisy” argument is hilarious to me. Is my workplace hypocritical because they serve alcohol but don’t allow employees to drink on the job? People throwing everything they can out there regardless if it makes sense or not to absolve a grown man of having to take any accountability is super cringeworthy

I’m complaining about NHL putting out three sentences and saying that the matter is settled.

I consider it pretty reasonable to want to know the rule a player broke to get one of the longest suspensions in the history of the NHL.

If it’s actually betting on NHL games, he just had someone do it for him, that could explain it but that’s just conjecture.

 

[tny760]

As a guy that watched esports. You can't be on the sport you are in.

Too many connections. Straight up its just bad

can't help but think about myself. kind of amusing how i've seen this betting stuff creeping in the same way it crept into esports and now we get to see the downsides of working with these "legitimate businessmen". ticking timebomb.

 

[llamateizer]

Sorry if this was brought up previously, but would this have any effect on the pro-rated effects of signing a contract near or at the end of his suspension? It was posted a while back that as the days go by his 23-24' AAV rises, so if he were to sign a contract in February, would his AAV be incredibly high?

This is all assuming he signs at all, of course.

depends if he has a signing bonus

 

[ORRFForever]

Good Lord, kid, what were you thinking?

IIRC, Steve Simmons had him as his Rookie Of The Year pick a few years back.

Foolish, foolish, foolish, foolish.

 

[Captain97]

so say you let slip of an upcoming currency fluctuation and a friend hit the exchange and made some money, Would you be criminally liable or just in trouble at the company? Or would you have had to see some of that $$ to be criminally liable?

We only would have forecasts that we made, there is no set currency changes.

More so we would know what big companies were expecting to happen. For example if Walmart was hedging that a certain currency would decline given what they are prediticng/concerned about.

Not just would I be potentially subject to fines so would the company worked for, for not monitoring. Could be considered criminal.

I Found a new job with less restrictions now a days. But insider info is definitely a big issue in the private sector.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

Lol

 

[ORRFForever]

The league should have had the suspension announcement be sponsored by DraftKings.

Well said.

As someone who has family members who have the gambling "bug", it's an awful thing. I simply do NOT understand it.

 

[PoutineSp00nZ]

The hypocrisy of the league stamping gambling adds all over itself then suspending a player for gambling is . . . something.

But that being said . . . Pinto is a pro athlete and should know gambling on sports is an awful look. That is an absolutely idiotic move and he will reap what he sews.

 

[Saga of the Elk]

The hypocrisy of the league stamping gambling adds all over itself then suspending a player for gambling is . . . something.

But that being said . . . Pinto is a pro athlete and should know gambling on sports is an awful look. That is an absolutely idiotic move and he will reap what he sews.

there was that horrendous incident a few years back when a player from Canada and a player from Sweden wagered on the World Juniors, with one young man having to get a haircut when the other team triumphed. It's unconscionable to wager on sports. Ever.

Good on the NHL for squashing it.

 

[gstommylee]

This is kind of dumb.

He's a 10.2(c) RFA.

 

[Bubbles]

This is what happens when you don't use BETMGM.

 

[gstommylee]

I don't get why he's suspended if it has nothing to do with NHL games then. Was it through illegal means?

Players are still restricted on how and where they sports bet. NFL suspended a couple players for betting while in team facilities for example.

 

[Muffin]

So he gave insider info to a friend. I bet it was about who the new owner would be since apparently he wasn't betting on games.

 

[Puckclektr]

I have officially cashed out of the two gambling sites I have been on. I don’t gamble much but now I’m not gambling at all. Anything to give the league less revenue for being hypocritical

 

[GreatSaveEssensa]

I'm not scrolling through the whole thread, did anyone post the zero days since last incident photo?

Dude, your on page 3 of the thread. Not like you would have to spend much tome finding out for yourself.

 

[KnockHobbler]

Wow, this franchise is nothing short of entertaining lol

 

[andora]

Wow, this franchise is nothing short of entertaining lol

There needs to be a running live counter for all the things that have happened

 

[Sol]

Do you expect anything else from probably the worst last name in the NHL?

 

[NyQuil]

 

[KnockHobbler]

NyQuil, I don’t know who you are and I know you probably don’t like me, but I’ll buy you a beer if this happens. I’ll buy everyone a beer

 

[Saga of the Elk]

So he gave insider info to a friend. I bet it was about who the new owner would be since apparently he wasn't betting on games.

Were sports books taking bets on who the new owner of the Senators would be back in May? Or were they taking bets on the performance of, say, a brother of a guy who knew a guy?