Presenting the draft order in a sloppily edited 30-minute show was the NHL’s chronic stepondickitis flaring yet again. 16 overall choice, the lowest for a non-playoff qualifier, until the survivors believe the price has been paid. Chicago could have even been locked into the No. That last option would have made the most sense. ” Flicking on the sarcasm button, they must just be jumping for joy that the NHL rewarded a franchise that dragged the image of hockey through the mud because it dumped its integrity BECAUSE IT’S THE CUP, THREE TIMES OVER.
Īs Darren Dreger of TSN tweeted on March 6, 2014, “ Needless to say, NHL teams are not happy with the league’s decision to let the Devils off the hook. In the last possible year, the pick was given back, but it was locked at the last pick in the first round. Remember when the New Jersey Devils gave Ilya Kovalchuk an artificially long-term, front-loaded contract where he was paid much more than his Average Annual Value counted against the cap? The NHL docked New Jersey a first-round choice and gave the Devils a four-year window not to use it. In 2019, the Vancouver Canucks and Florida Panthers were assessed salary cap recapture penalties when goalie Roberto Luongo retired with three seasons left on his long-term contract. However, if the former is so bad, then so is the much much worse thing. That is apples to durians compared to how the Chicago organization failed Beach and at least one other sexual assault survivor. The Arizona Coyotes, whose reign as the league’s most KHL outfit is being threatened by at least two Canadian-based teams, forfeited two high draft picks for violating the NHL’s combine testing policy during the ’19-20 season. ” It has exercised options to wrist-whack the real evildoers in the league: The NHL had options to keep Chicago from getting “ rewarded for trying to cleanse all that as quickly as possible and dumping every player and employee connected to it. The leagues have made drafts appointment viewing for some, and that’s fine.
They prop up the organizations that are varyingly dumb, lazy, or in cities where no 20-year-old hotshot athlete would choose to start their career. Looking for moral virtue in big-time sports might seem like a snipe hunt, but no one should feel good about reading that Chicago took in more in new season ticket sales ( US$2.5 million ) than it was fined for the sex abuse scandal ($2 million).ĭrafts are salary caps entirely fictitious exercises to foster parity and depress entry-level salaries. It leaves a bad bad taste that the Chicago NHL club, which failed Kyle Beach, which failed the teenager who was sexually assaulted by the former video coach they vouched for, and which ignored the three simple words OBLIGATION TO REPORT, gets rewarded. Going with your gut, rather than the galaxy brain, is correct. One suspects not, since your avatar was Bedard photo-shopped into a Columbus Blue Jackets uniform. Whelp, did you ever come to the right internet hovel if you want to get on the ALL DRAFTS ARE IMMORAL bandwagon. What was the NHL supposed to do to avoid having Connor Bedard land with the sex abuse scandal-tarnished Chicago club while hockey fans shouted “RIGGED” after the draft lottery?
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