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One player is a trend?

I'm not even sure it's skepticism. -Random player/players say something to Bissonnette about not liking an interaction between Jenner and Babcock. -Jenner has no problem whatsoever about said interaction. -What more is there really to say at this point?

I heard a handful of quotes from a few of their players who had nothing but good things to say about the whole thing. It was mostly a "that's your family? hey, here's mine" sort of thing. Whatever people think of Babcock, I don't really feel like Bissonnette is someone I'm turning to for just about anything.

None of this means that the person actually complained about it. The suit says that the person shared a conversation that he had. None of that comes off as a complaint to me but more of a "hey, wait until you here what this guy said". I'm still catching up on the rest of the posts here, but the meetings you're talking about with Pegula should be a completely different event than this 40 media member zoom call. Pegula's not on that call. Whenever he came off looking badly (which I also vaguely remember some comments about), it's not the same thing.

I’ve lost track of when that initial conversation happened. Regardless, we’re now three years removed from the zoom call and two degrees of separation. Whatever he said, the quote has warped a bit at this point. If it was so offensive why hasn’t the actual person complained? Pegula had a full conversation with someone. That person then later has a whole dialogue with another group, from which Trotter picks out one line. Context gets clouded not once, but twice. I have a hard time putting much if any weight behind something like that. But that’s how we do everything these days, cherry picking whatever we’d like.

Two years after the fact, he may very well have phrased it your way… or something else completely different. Someone mentioned earlier kids playing telephone. Now just imagine that game going on for 2 years.

What are the chances the zoom feed froze and Trotter misinterpreted that?😁

Why do they have to be cash poor in order to look for cash?

Climbing into the stands and attempting to stab a fan with a skate? Oops, wrong team.

Ullmark

And then we have American pro sports, which apparently don't fall under the label of "just about every place on earth".

I don't know a thing about Trotter, but I don't believe it was his intention to go after Pegula at all here. It's the media who jumped all over one small portion of the legal documents and threw Pegula under the bus. He's not the one out there writing these headlines, the only thing that the majority of people out there actually read. That belittles Trotter's case as well, making it all about Pegula instead.

Remove the limit. I need more references from K9 that I am clueless about.

You’re supposed to be sympathetic towards a harm when someone is dragging your name through the mud to support their claim. I don’t know many who are going to be able to get past that. And quite honestly, I think the response from Pegula is much more aimed at the headlines and stories yesterday than it is at Trotter.

Whoever had the conversation with Pegula. I suppose that identity is known to the 40 (was that the right number) on that call.

Why does one anonymous source carry more weight than another anonymous source?

Add a zero to that figure, please.

Has it ever actually been stated that Trotter filed the original complaint? Either way, it just seems crazy to me that there can even be much to investigate at that point. You’re two years removed from what looks to be a one-on-one conversation. Your just as likely to find out which magazine article Terry was reading while sitting on the can that day.

But we want the geese to stay in Canada.

The CHL is concerned about losing their best players. Who are the CHL players that are drafted? Their best players. I really don't see any reason for either side to modify the current arrangement. The CHL wants to keep their players as long as possible and the NHL gets to retain the rights to a player longer. They're not going to make waves for a handful of unique cases.

That's exactly what I meant. But anyway, the "screw the CHL" stance makes it very difficult for a conversation on a topic that you started. Every other league has a transfer agreement (ok, most of them) and the CHL needs one as well.

Let's face it, the players that would be moved up early are not going to be evenly distributed around the CHL. What happens when 5 different NHL teams all decide to use this early call up on guys all playing on the same team? I can't picture teams agreeing to that kind of risk.

So he's supposed to be sympathetic towards the person accusing him of something that he says he did not do? That type of response is not even remotely human. If the statement did actually say that, people would be lining up to call it BS.

And then it comes down to OHL vs. WHL. It looks like Bedard is the only one who ever got exceptional player status to play young with the WHL. I'd imagine they don't like messing around with the rules very often.

I'll be in that boat eventually. I was actually thinking at the course about when my son is in school I'll be able to hang out with his friend's grandparents.