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Originally Posted by sureLoss
Ron Francis has some answering to do.
Geoff Baker
@GeoffBakerTIMES
BREAKING: Former Carolina Hurricanes owner Karmanos says he’d have fired coach Bill Peters “in a nanosecond” had GM Ron Francis told him of player abuse allegations. Francis, now with NHL Seattle, has yet to comment.
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/...e-allegations/ |
I'm still rather focused on this part of the story, which I fear is getting overlooked:
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On Wednesday, current Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour, a longtime Hurricanes assistant who replaced Peters, told reporters the alleged abuse “for sure happened, the two issues that are in question.”
He added: “The way the players handled it and the support staff handled it (was to) bring it to management right away. Management handled it correctly, and (we) never heard of it again. Never saw anything else after that. It was definitely dealt with in my opinion correctly. That’s not something we talk about. … We’ve definitely moved past that.”
But Brind’Amour, a friend and former teammate of Francis, did not specify what corrective action, if any, was taken.
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I get that Brind'Amour wants to move on from the incident—that the team wanted to move on at the time—but isn't this just illustrative of the larger problem here? I think it is fair to consider Bill Peters an abuser with everything that has come out, including all the stuff from Carolina. But doesn't the decision made to handle this internally not also help to promote the perpetuation of abuse, and enable the abuser?
Some people have made a big deal about how much Treliving should have known about Bill Peters abusive behaviour. However, given the fact that Rod Brind'Amour is STILL of the opinion that burying the issue is an acceptable response to dealing with abuse, how confident can anyone be that this stuff would ever be disclosed after the fact?