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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
you're going to seriously compare child bullying with professional hockey played by men.
Give me a break, you might as well compare apples to orangutangs.
Throwing a grown mans who's a multi millionaire getting paid to play a sport's track suit in the shower is hardly a self esteem killing soul destroying act of bullying.
Its sending a message.
Its not bullying.
If Evander Kane is sooo darn fragile that this one event makes him walk out of his team, then so be, he isn't worth having around.
I actually think its pretty disgraceful that you're comparing the two.
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It's laughable that you think it is one thing, and my point was less about comparing the two and more about the message we are sending.
If there is kid who is a huge fan of Byfuglien in Winnipeg, and he sees Byfuglien being praised as a leader for sending a message by throwing Kane's clothes in the shower then what is going to stop him from doing it tomorrow and seeing no wrong from it.
Whether you are 10 or 50, or if you make $10 per hour or a million dollars it is irrelevant. The act that Byfuglien played out here was bullying and he is a role model for many kids who will think it's alright since Byfuglien did it.
The dislike between Byfuglien and Kane goes back 5 years according to the reports. I would guess that the bullying could potentially go both ways, but maybe not. I would also get that this is clearly not the first thing and something pushed Kane over the edge.
As mentioned I doubt a guy who has never quit on the team before, has been playing through multiple injuries, and was lacing up in his home town would decide to just quit on his teammates based on this one incident.
But sure you can all just go around yelling "IT'S DIFFERENT", "IT'S ACCEPTED", "HE DESERVED IT BECAUSE HE'S AN IDIOT" and ignore that what Byfuglien did was wrong too.
I have a feeling that this is going to be very similar to the Martin and Incognito incident where many different incidents and events between those two are eventually going to get released. Different in that Byfugien may always feel he has a reason for his actions, but still not setting a very good example.