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By "her follow up" do you mean the lawyer? Anyway, if you are going to throw a laundry list of accusations like that out at someone, every single one better be completely air tight or else you introduce doubt into the equation.

Probably a big part of why the lawyer told the woman to remove the post.

I just want them to constantly play a clip from Spaceballs on the jumbotron but alter the words to "keep firing, Ahos".

Apparently he retired in 97, then coached for a year with Calgary, before coming back out of retirement to play 3 more years.

And as a result, it's natural to think that she might be facing an uphill battle with that legal representation. But anyway, you know things are incredibly messed up already when the victim is quickly getting statements out there through a lawyer. I'm not sure which came out first since I'm seeing them at pretty much the same time, the police statement or the lawyer's statement. These women probably hurt their case right off the bat by throwing the accusations at McCoy online immediately.

Is this the same Steve Smith, defenseman from the Gretzky era Oilers?

It seems like the kind of thing a lawyer should know better than to do, especially with something that you're releasing to the public. Years ago back in the middle of when the firm had their brief name change, I stopped at a bar on my way home after after a Sabres-Bruins game, fairly far away from their arena. A random girl starts asking me about my Sabres jersey. Long story short, she tells me she's the daughter of one of the two, I forget which one. Anyway, I wonder if that's the same daughter.

For the second time in less than a year, a house in my neighborhood was struck by lightning this past weekend. Fortunately I wasn't around this time when it happened. The two are so close together too. It's not too often that you can seek out someone with first hand advice on this whole process by just walking across the street. That other family just moved back in about a month ago. And I hope I'm not blaming the victim here, but the two houses are the same exact model.

Is that an attempt to dance around the possible defamation that runs pretty thick in that statement? Sometimes I wish people didn't have to hide behind all the lawyer speak and would just come right out and say it. The lawyer of the woman from the original post was definitely worried about defamation issues.

I can also see a scenario where a buddy decides to go there on his own and then things get out of hand quickly. So that's a case where neither McCoy or the ex-girlfriend did something stupid.

Why would they though? It's already out there and screen grabbed a million times. You can't close that door. I'd imagine that countless more people have heard of it from a source other than instagram at this point.

So if you're going to go the tennis route, you would instead have to call him ball. Sadly, that nickname is already claimed by Phil Kessel.

So the assumption would be that the wounds are from last night, but has anything actually said that? That would be what some of the posts saying that they're trying to find any actual medical or police report would be looking for, I'm sure. The whole thing is coming from such a strange path.

Do any of the links give a date for when the potential attack happened?

If there's a court appearance scheduled for today, there's probably going to be contact between the two in some form. If nothing else, the legal speak is probably going to be very fresh in your mind as you're preparing.

I only read what TrueBlue posted about that earlier, so I have no idea where it went after that. What wound up happening? And your point?

Exactly. I probably reacted too early but "I ignored child abuse but I will not ignore this" was how that the initial post read to me. To me, there's an inconsistency in the whole way that thing was listed out. It's entirely possible that it was done during an overly emotional state, but everything about it leaves a sick feeling in my stomach. I'm sure it's a cultural/generational thing, but if something like this is happening, I'm not running to social media immediately. I at least get police involvement, especially when it's something I want to make public. Maybe they did, but I would hope that someone from a media source like WGR (that was the initial one posted here, correct?) would find that record before posting his/her response. I have a very obvious bias against social media postings as a whole. I'm sure that is very obvious.

Aim low and you'll almost never be disappointed

That's one of the odd things about this. I have absolutely no clue who is talking. And before this triggers another wave of finger pointing, I mean that in the most generic sense possible. Did that post come from the bloodied girl? A friend who saw it all? A friend who heard it from someone else? Someone who doesn't actually know either person? A neighbor? Aud Smell?

Did they bring in much beyond Coffey? I don't really remember most of the names that went through. The ones that stick out most to me are the goalie carousel and then guys like Brett Hull and Shanahan. On a side note, I would have thought it was us bringing in all the 80s Oilers during Muckler's time, or at least the lower level guys like Muni and Craig Anderson.

I'm not so sure either side would have any interest in changing anything. I don't really see anything that it would do other than balancing the playing field. Neither side really gains much from changing it. Does anyone have any idea what percentage of the players actually have these type of bonuses? If it's a very small number, there's not much sense in messing with it.

There was no cap for most of that though. They were throwing money at any goalie they could find at some point.

I have no problem blaming someone for that, subsequent beating or not. edit: And by that, I mean that I have no problem blaming someone for turning the other way if/when a child is being beaten No, I'm saying that I have a major problem with someone looking the other way over multiple vicious beatings of a child.

So then if it's a signing bonus heavy deal, that entire portion would fall under Florida's tax law?

What exactly am I blaming her for?