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Originally Posted by Bezer
Innocent til proven guilty but when you are a person who is known, you need to be careful how you handle yourself. If he is innocent, which I hope he is, lesson leaned (be careful what kind of situations you put yourself in) If he is guilty I hope they throw the book at him. He is a representative of the Flames and he should act as such, he cant go around breaking peoples faces.
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19 year old kid has a little too much one night, is wired a certain way after years of coaching and a unique environment, throws a punch he shouldn't and you want what? Him to serve time? If he'd done this on the ice, he would have maybe been given an extra two, or a ten minute misconduct. If it was really egregious, he'd get ejected, but likely not suspended.
Give him his community service and be done with it. Let's not act like hes the only party at fault here. Bar fights never happen because one side was doing nothing whatsoever and the other side just wanted to hit somebody. And I highly doubt someone was breaking his balls because they knew he was 'Michael Ferland'. We're not talking Iggy or Kipper here, we're talking about a 5th rounder who didn't make the world junior team and plays in Brandon. How recognizable could he be in Cochrane?
Live and learn. If Batman saw this, he'd give all involved a shot to the kidneys and tell them to grow up before continuing his pursuit of actual fiends. Nothing to see here.