Auston Matthews
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We really don't know what happened and the drunken perspective of these lads, as they are still lads. My maxim has always been about casting the first stone. Every single one of us has done things we regret. Stupid things.
Michael said:
I also know him by name because he's pretty famous, and just because she was a security guard at his condo doesn't mean Matthews or his friends would have had any idea who the woman was. Maybe she was new to the job. Maybe she works shifts opposite of when Matthews is often around. Maybe Matthews is someone who doesn't really pay any attention to people in that position. It's entirely possible these two had never interacted prior to this night.
All I'm saying is for someone who says we should wait for all the facts to come out and not jump to any conclusions suggesting that these actions were innocent and playful because everyone knew each other is a pretty big assumption to make.
CarltonTheBear said:
I agree that it is somewhat presumptuous, but I am basing this on the sentence in the complaint that reads "She further added that she was able to identify the resident as Auston Matthews who resides in the building."
If you live in a building like that you tend to get at least a little familiar with security staff as you come and go. But yes, she could be new and maybe she only knows him because he is famous.
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Zee said:
Babcock himself didn't know. That doesn't mean that nobody in the org. knew.
https://twitter.com/Account4hockey/status/1176895608222900227
This could play as large of a role in Matthews losing out on the C (for now at least) than the alleged actions will. Very strange for the Leafs to have not been made aware of what was going on. Unless this is some weird situation where Matthews himself wasn't even full aware of the legal actions that were taking place (maybe he just told his agent to handle it and was left out of the loop completely after, I dunno).
This could play as large of a role in Matthews losing out on the C (for now at least) than the alleged actions will. Very strange for the Leafs to have not been made aware of what was going on. Unless this is some weird situation where Matthews himself wasn't even full aware of the legal actions that were taking place (maybe he just told his agent to handle it and was left out of the loop completely after, I dunno).
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CarltonTheBear said:
Hard to believe that having a criminal complaint filed against you, no matter the severity, is something you'd be un- or semi-aware of. Shanahan & Co. must be beside themselves.
Yeah, if true this looks like a colossal failure of judgment on Matthews' part.
Nik the Trik said:
You have to think that the Leafs were going to find out about it eventually though, right? I get Matthews not being proud about all this and being embarrassed by it, but keeping it quiet just makes thing worse. And I'm not putting all the blame on him here exactly. His agent/lawyer should have been the ones to inform the Leafs about it if it wasn't him.
I'd also add that if this news was bound to come out eventually, it probably would have better served everyone if it came out in the middle of August as opposed to a week before the regular season starts.
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CarltonTheBear said:
Well, that's the other thing I don't get. So it happens in May and we don't hear about it until literally the day before his scheduled court appearance. Why are we hearing about it now? Did someone at the courthouse recognize Matthews' name? People just randomly searching for famous names in public records?
Because doesn't the fact that we're only hearing about it now kind of indicate that maybe it being discovered wasn't inevitable? Think about all of the people who would have had to have known about this before now from Auston's friends to the Security Guard(and presumably everyone she told) to the Police...and nobody says anything apparently. So...I have no idea how inevitable it is.
It feels like the reason his agent/lawyer didn't tell him to tell the Leafs might be because they didn't think it would come up.
Nik the Trik said:
The way this came out was definitely pretty strange. This was literally the first mention of it:
https://twitter.com/MouradB/status/1176330126310744064
That's it. Just some random Habs fan on twitter. Posted on Monday evening, and it wasn't until Tuesday afternoon that others on twitter took notice to it.