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- Jan 26, 2012
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The thread is qualified with an apology for offense; Are you really unaware that that’s as bright a beacon for eliciting response as there can be short of blatant insult?I mean if your point here is it's too soon to be discussing this probably avoid the thread that is solely focused on discussing it? Consider it callous or not but the business side continues as if it were just another day and frankly the CBJ front office have probably been discussing this long before OP made this thread
Secondly, you’re using “frankly” and “probably” in a way that wants to oblige the reader to take your subjective sense of the situation as the fact of the matter as though you know it to be true, when you don’t.
What’s most likely, is that Columbus has stopped all business concerning anything attached to Johnny Gaudreau until sometime after camp, never mind in proximity to the memorial and funeral.
I suspect they haven’t begun to talk about it because it’s…obviously completely culturally inappropriate. Because it would cause a tremendous burden on the esprit de corps in management and certainly within the team.
And to reiterate: I do consider it callous because it is.
Consider that there’s been one AP article that occasioned a slight tone of business, in a “what else can we do but go on” in the face of tragedy, and that everything else out there is a tribute to Johnny.
Of course business will continue. When it’s time to - but this thread definitely didn’t get the memo that even the rabid press got, likely set in tone by the club…who aren’t talking about and haven’t been talking about replacing Gaudreau’s numbers with his “cap hit” for goodness sake.
The only “business” that continued like it’s “just another day” is the kind of business that has absolutely no clue how organizations who value their people - especially beloved athletes - operate.
In fact, it’s the absolute worst optics from a purely business standpoint to be seen conducting business during this type of tragedy and absolutely essential to be seen focusing solely on the human needs clearly at hand.