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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Lots of people are bothered that Mayweather is allowed to continue to fight. But boxing is insane. Fight sports are all insane. Mike Tyson is a convicted rapist and he fought for another 15 years. Manny Pacquiao might as well be Pat Robertson for all the crazy he spouts.
I don't know that 'the public embraced Floyd after he beat up his wife' is a great argument either.
Regardless, it's the NHL's tournament and they don't want him. He's not an NHL player, Nesterov is, and they don't have to answer any more Voynov questions.
Brian Burke often talks about it being a privilege to earn pro athlete wages. Nobody's preventing Voynov from loading trucks in Minsk. Nobody's even preventing him from earning a living play pro hockey. His actions cost him the opportunity to play in the NHL, and by extension the World Cup.
There's probably more than a little bit of '#### that guy' at play here too. Which is fine. He beat up his girlfriend/now wife. He's a 2x Stanley Cup winning defenseman and he beat up a woman. He pleaded no contest. #### that guy.
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While all true, isn't there some legal mumbo jumbo wherein if someone has done their time in prison, you can't continue holding stuff against him? As in, you can't discriminate employment (i.e.: The World Cup) because of past criminal behavior?