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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
Countless NHLers have posted questionable social media posts or have been arrested for DUIs, assault or even worse charges like manslaughter/murder. It is an incredibly long list and completely unfair to hold Kane to this as a flawed character for a few questionable posts and a mistake as a youngster that hasn't been repeated.
MacTavish, Heatley, Ramage, to name a few, all killed people due to liquor abuse and pure idiocy. Pat Kane is known to be a complete sleaze bag with ties to a rape case but somehow he no longer seems to be ripped on as much as the terrible Evander Kane.
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Honestly, most of them belong on the same list.
You're paid millions of dollars to play hockey and you're idolized by children.
I sure as hell don't get free passes for rape, drunk driving, arrogance around my peers and certainly not assault and murder - so why the hell should they? And I don't have anyone outside my office asking for autographs... yet. I don't understand the need to forgive a single one of them.
If there's a change in character, it needs to be demonstrated for a sustainable amount of time. That's not 1 or 2 seasons, it's decades. If you do something crappy, you become that person to me. I want to see you demonstrate a change before my subconscious will ever allow you to be anything but a horrible person. I don't mean everyone of them needs to be booed in the streets for eternity, but they definitely lose the privilege of being an idolized millionaire living out most of our fantasies when you somehow lose the ability to act like a rational human.
Mistakes happen, and every one of us knows that our lives would be completely over if we ever found ourselves in the position these players put themselves in.
If you hit a Timmys hammered, stashed the car and sauntered up Main Street what would happen to you? I'll damn well bet you're not 'putting it behind you' as ROR put it. It'll take at least 5-10 years for you to recover from that.
I just don't understand the sympathy for these guys. Screw them. I'm not forgiving rape and the like so my team can have a few more Ws. That tradeoff is insanity.