Running 2022-23 NHL thread

What he did had been well told even before that statement. None of this is new. Even the effect on the kid he bullied; his mom had already said all of that multiple times, and the kid was balling his eyes out in court like he had done something wrong.

Whatever "due dilligence" the Bruins did or didn't do, the lollipop in the urinal, the racial slurs, the "your parents didn't love you, that is why you have to live with a white family now," the bullying having gone back to elementary school, was all public knowledge.

No amount of "due dilligence" in the world is going to change what the kid did or the effect it had on his victim.

What it comes down to at some point is, does he get a second chance, the way lots of people who do bad things get second chances? And if so, how much time is enough time? Or is he banned from the NHL because he was cruel and did terrible things to another kid when he was in elementary and middle school?

But that family is invested in destroying his life, and while I understand their implacable anger and why they are doing that. ... it can't be left to them deciding when he's been punished enough. They are likely to never feel he's been punished enough.

If I was his agent, in addition to getting him out there and talking in public, I'd probably pledge a portion of his salary for X years to a service organization dedicated to bullying.

 

Eustace King may be a decent agent, I have no idea, but I agree he isn't helping his client. And yeah, it's not enough that he's like the one black agent out there if he was chosen overtly by Miller for that reason (which you'd have to guess is likely).

He was right that nothing changed and that the reason the Bruins terminated the contract was the backlash they got, not some new information, but that is something the agent needs to eat at this point. His job is to fix it, and he has not come up with any sort of plan like you said for ticking all of the boxes to try to placate some of the backlash. He seems clueless.

 

Let's be real, though. I didn't call for the Devils to be this good this fast! I think I just said something to you about how they were a team on the rise. ... building something, while the Caps are just getting older and are going to get passed. I actually thought there was a chance for the playoffs this year for the Devils, but I really thought maybe they were a year away. Some of their play, I am absolutely not surprised about. But some of what they are doing is surprising me. Like I knew the jump Jesper Bratt made last year, but so far this year he is proving to be way better than I had even realized.