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Originally Posted by ThePrince
I feel like this is definitely a circumstance where he could have gone to Thornton and asked if he could quote that. There's a video on TSN of Jamie McLennan talking about this and he states that there were numerous times where reporters would come to him and ask if they could quote a particular comment. Obviously Botchford took the comment and saw dollar signs, so he ran with it.
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I don't disagree that this is such a circumstance. I was just saying I'm not sure where the line is, and what makes X situation one where you have to double-check with the player, whereas in Y situation, you don't. Is it if they use coarse language, or if they say something controversial (not sure I agree with either of those), or just when they make a comment that isn't a direct response to a question asked to them specifically? I can get behind that last one.