Disturbing e-mails leak of Eugene Melnyk bashing a Senators campaign. 📢 VIEWERS DISCRETION IS ADVISED 📢

[Kanye East]

Below is the Senators campaign Melnyk was really not happy about :

Frustrated after viewing the Twitter campaign, Melnyk called the person in charge and said :

EM - Are you the one responsible for this f*king gay campaign? Have you lost your f***ing mind? You need to take that shit down immediately.
EM - We are the laughing stock of the NHL right now!
EM - They think we are so desperate that we have to advertise to gays now. Dogs and gays.

*"The reference to dogs referred to the Senators commitment in the community to local animal rescues where they'd ran promotions earlier in the season. Despite Melnyk's objections the campaign ran as advertise as part of the NHL's "Hockey is for Everyone".

Workplace abuse was also reported. The Athletic found the account of one employee who took the abuse from Melnyk's:

EM - You F*ing can't who do you think you are? When I tell you to do something you do it.
You are done.
EM - You really are a dumb bitch who doesn't get it. How dare you write and question me.You are a no one.
All these emails sent by the former Senators owner, have been confirmed and verified by The Athletic.
(The Eugene Melnyk era in Ottawa: Hopeful, then bizarre and tyrannical)

Wow as you can see Melnyk was really a scumbag. What a crazy story.​

#HockeyIsForEveryone

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[PuckG]

If true, calling him old-school is downplaying it. Sounds like he's an absolute ******-bag.

Edit: was an absolute ******-bag.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

oof

 

[Mickey Marner]

Kinda' surprised that Melnyk would email his employees directly. But I guess that's what happens when you run a skeleton crew.

 

[Jee]

I am shocked.

 

[Sugi21]

Wow nothing “old school” about that! that’s just downright being an arsehole I know it’s not good to speak of the dead but even if he was alive not sure how he defends that let alone how he’s talking to one of his employees

 

[Sol]

Nvm there’s a link now

 

[SannywithoutCompy]

Thank God I used my discretion!

But yeah Melnyk is a piece of shit, nothing new there.

Edit: was

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

Timing is in poor taste. If this is true they should have dropped this story while he was alive and could potentially refute this. This is just slanderous.

If you don’t want crap written about you when you’re dead don’t be a crap person. There’s no reason to believe any of this is false.

Good riddance.

 

[Shocker]

Timing is in poor taste. If this is true they should have dropped this story while he was alive and could potentially refute this. This is just libel.

The timing of this seems really wrong to me.

I don't think you know what libel means.

 

[GreenLine]

Even if he had these beliefs and treated his staff this way, why would he be dumb enough to put it in writing? Pick up the phone instead.

 

[PostBradMalone]

Timing is in poor taste. If this is true they should have dropped this story while he was alive and could potentially refute this. This is just libel.

The timing of this seems really wrong to me. Character assassination of someone who just recently passed always is very suspicious to me because the question remains why they waited until the person in question can’t make their comment about it.

Imagine defending a homophobic dillhole.

 

[BondraTime]

Timing is in poor taste. If this is true they should have dropped this story while he was alive and could potentially refute this. This is just libel.

The timing of this seems really wrong to me. Character assassination of someone who just recently passed always is very suspicious to me because the question remains why they waited until the person in question can’t make their comment about it.

Do you know what libel means?

“All these emails sent by the former Senators owner, have been confirmed and verified by The Athletic.”

 

[The Andrew Peeke Fan]

Lmao

 

[Kanye East]

Wow nothing “old school” about that! that’s just downright being an arsehole I know it’s not good to speak of the dead but even if he was alive not sure how he defends that let alone how he’s talking to one of his employees

Sorry didn't meant old school, I changed it for you. Sorry for the confusion, I'm really not on Melnyk's side. Hockey is for everyone

 

[Sol]

Do you know what libel means?

“All these emails sent by the former Senators owner, have been confirmed and verified by The Athletic.”

I didn’t know there was a link. Calm down junior.

Is there a link I thought there was

 

[Breakers]

Newsflash: the senators organization was the laughing stock to some well before this promo was even created

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Here's the link containing the email snippets OP didn't provide, paywall though. I found a snapshot of it on archive.md in case anyone else wants to read it and not subscribed

The Eugene Melnyk era in Ottawa: Hopeful, then bizarre and tyrannical

From "beyond embarrassing" meltdowns to puzzling personnel decisions: An in-depth look at Melnyk's mercurial two-decade reign

theathletic.com

 

[soothsayer]

Timing is in poor taste. If this is true they should have dropped this story while he was alive and could potentially refute this. This is just libel.

The timing of this seems really wrong to me. Character assassination of someone who just recently passed always is very suspicious to me because the question remains why they waited until the person in question can’t make their comment about it.

If the emails are real, then it's not libel.

 

[BondraTime]

I didn’t know there was a link. Calm down junior.

Should read before posting then

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

Nvm there’s a link now

Perfect timing -- make sure everyone knows who this POS was when they're saying goodbye/good riddence.

 

[Some Other Flame]

Melnyk being a POS was well known, in a general sense at least.

But it would have been better for all these details to have been released when he was still kicking around. That way he would have died knowing everyone else knew too.

 

[MikeyMike01]

It was really weird seeing so many people suddenly praising him just because he died.

 

[General Fanager]

dirt bag for sure, but the person who leaked this is also a dirt bag.

 

[Fire Sweeney]

Inappropriate by Melnik, but that is a very lame campaign.