Blackhawks refused to report alleged sex abuse of players to police: source
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OldTimeHockey
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herman said:
The media plays a big part in this. Fans do as well.
OldTimeHockey
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Nik said:
Exactly. It could have fixed everything
Heroic Shrimp
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https://twitter.com/rwesthead/status/1457055896266215437
Frank E
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Heroic Shrimp said:
While I appreciate the sentiment or whatever that is, the NHL has a fraction of the terrible bul*shit that the NBA, MLB, and NFL have...and they seem to be doing just fine, right?
EDIT: And that's not a comment on the league's response, I'm just saying that most corporations will spend their money where the eyeballs are regardless.
Kin
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Frank E said:
I don't know about that. As far as bad things in sports goes, this is fairly well up there. I don't know there's a lot in those other sports in recent years that compares to a player in the league being sexually assaulted and a team effectively ignoring it because they thought it might hurt their playoff chances. A company is going to want to feel pretty good on the ROI of their sponsorship dollars to be associated with that.
Frank E said:
But sort of the natural flipside of that is that the less powerful a sport is, the more leverage their sponsors have. So while the NBA or NFL might say to a sponsor "If you don't like the way we run things, we have other people whose money we can take" the NHL can't be quite so cavalier with sponsors they want to keep. Remember, we're not too far removed from the NHL games being on the Outdoor Life Network in the states.
bustaheims
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Nik said:
Yup. Seems like something they probably should have let their lawyers handle instead of responding directly. Still wouldn't look good, but at least, it would give the league some cover.
https://twitter.com/TSNRyanRishaug/status/1458163787379265538
What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Guilt Trip
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He's getting blasted on social media. What a tool.L K said:
https://twitter.com/PuckReportNHL/status/1489080667573002246
dappleganger
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This is beyond stupid. All he needs is a pre-canned answer like, "We take this matter very seriously. We're reviewing all of our internal policies and we should have some initiatives to announce very soon."
Any follow up questions, just "We have nothing further at this time."
Dumb.
Any follow up questions, just "We have nothing further at this time."
Dumb.
Dappleganger said:
There's also no excuse for not having something much better in place already. It's actually not very hard at all to figure out. There are millions of other businesses that need to be concerned about abuse (eg: look at universities ... many young people mentored by older people who have power over them).
Start simply by appointing an independent ombudsperson who can listen to complaints and act as a sounding board and has written into their contract that they have no obligation to anyone other than those folks who report problems of harassment or discrimination.
Heroic Shrimp
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https://twitter.com/shelkenn/status/1489273767733780483
Heroic Shrimp
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It?s honestly hard to imagine a worse answer to this question. If he gave an appropriate answer, which wouldn?t have been challenging to do, literally nobody outside of Chicago would even know about this press conference even happening. This isn?t just Wirtz shooting himself in the foot, it?s also him seeking out the gun to do it with and dismissing the attempts to prevent him from doing it, thus ensuring that everybody that follows the NHL knows about it.
dappleganger
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He's a billionaire who thinks he's beyond reproach. Can't say I'm surprise by that.
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