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Originally Posted by old-fart

If I recall he sued Bertie and the Nucks, not the NHL. There was something about a suit against Crawford as well (I think) but that might have been between Bertie and Crawford or something... I can't recall all the details because I'm an old-fart.

Yes, it is somewhat hard to prove lost income from a job you never had, but you can certainly look at a bunch of Harvard (or Ivy league school) business grads, with a high profile sports career, and look at what the average of them have gone on to do post playing career. Similar to how you can look at his NHL career to that point, look at other players NHL career to the same age with the same background, and project what his likely NHL income would have been had he not been attacked from behind.

It makes no difference that he "might" have gotten injured at some other point in his career, just like it makes no difference that he "might" have gotten hit by a car later that very night if he didn't take an ambulance to the hospital.

there was some contention in the case about where he could have done as a Harvard business grad though

“Steve Moore is unable to obtain employment commensurate to anywhere near his high intellect and Harvard degree,” Danson told the court, referring to reports by career experts he has filed.

But the lawyer for Orca Bay, the former owner of the Vancouver Canucks, argued otherwise.

Alan D’Silva referred to applications Moore made to the Harvard and Stanford MBA programs in 2010 in which Moore writes about receiving $104,000 for work.

Moore wrote the Graduate Management Admissions Test as part of his applications and scored in the 88th percentile.