Around the League Thread | The Season is Coming Edition

[tantalum]

I will say, the picture on ESPN+ is fantastic. A bit of a pain in the ass to navigate, no option to start from beginning but picture is superb.

 

[F A N]

Francis got the Carolina method of (lack of) spending so ingrained in his mind.

Should talk to Glen Sather about freeing his mind.

 

[Melvin]

I can’t believe it.

 

[MS]

Um half their organization including players were covering up sex assault at the time- no way they deserved to win- they should have been suspended.

1. The fans don't deserve to have their team taken away from them due to the actions of a couple management people. If AV was grabbing asses of Canuck employees in 2011 and Gillis covered it up ... punishing Canuck fans by taking our team away for a season would be absurd.

2. The players might have behaved like shit toward the victim but they were not involved in any 'cover up' to my knowledge. They won the Cup fair and square.

3. There is absolutely zero logical or possible mechanism to 'suspend' the Blackhawks for a year. It's absolutely impossible to do and a notion not grounded in reality. Like, does Alex Debrincat lose a year of his career because of something that happened when he was 12?

Again, people did some very wrong things. Those people deserved to be punished, harshly. But absurd punishments that don't even target any of the right people solve nothing.

 

[Melvin]

1. The fans don't deserve to have their team taken away from them due to the actions of a couple management people. If AV was grabbing asses of Canuck employees in 2011 and Gillis covered it up ... punishing Canuck fans by taking our team away for a season would be absurd.

2. The players might have behaved like shit toward the victim but they were not involved in any 'cover up' to my knowledge. They won the Cup fair and square.

3. There is absolutely zero logical or possible mechanism to 'suspend' the Blackhawks for a year. It's absolutely impossible to do and a notion not grounded in reality. Like, does Alex Debrincat lose a year of his career because of something that happened when he was 12?

Again, people did some very wrong things. Those people deserved to be punished, harshly. But absurd punishments that don't even target any of the right people solve nothing.

I mean.

they do take way draft picks from teams for stuff that happened three years prior. That affects people who work in analytics and amateur scouting who had nothing to do with it, and also affects fans.

 

[MS]

I mean.

they do take way draft picks from teams for stuff that happened three years prior. That affects people who work in analytics and amateur scouting who had nothing to do with it, and also affects fans.

At least penalties for sign-stealing and combine tampering have some connection to the on-field/ice product. I don't know if I agree there either, but I definitely don't agree with hockey ops penalties for non-hockey ops transgressions.

 

[Hit the post]

At least penalties for sign-stealing and combine tampering have some connection to the on-field/ice product. I don't know if I agree there either, but I definitely don't agree with hockey ops penalties for non-hockey ops transgressions.

The irony of the 'stop the steal" campaign in Texas earlier this year (especially with respect to the Houston Astros).

 

[Dab]

1. The fans don't deserve to have their team taken away from them due to the actions of a couple management people. If AV was grabbing asses of Canuck employees in 2011 and Gillis covered it up ... punishing Canuck fans by taking our team away for a season would be absurd.

2. The players might have behaved like shit toward the victim but they were not involved in any 'cover up' to my knowledge. They won the Cup fair and square.

3. There is absolutely zero logical or possible mechanism to 'suspend' the Blackhawks for a year. It's absolutely impossible to do and a notion not grounded in reality. Like, does Alex Debrincat lose a year of his career because of something that happened when he was 12?

Again, people did some very wrong things. Those people deserved to be punished, harshly. But absurd punishments that don't even target any of the right people solve nothing.

The fans aren’t included in the equation, in my opinion. In fact I see many Chicago fans enabling this franchise.
If you are a worker in an organization and you know that a manager is sexually harassing another worker and you don’t go to your union and rather turn a blind eye you are a disgusting, despicable person. Period.