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Originally Posted by old-fart
I wonder if there is any liability here on Carolina’s part. Presumably a call was made to Carolina to say “tell us about BIll”. If there were issues of abuse there that were undisclosed, does Carolina not have obligation (if not legal at least moral) to pass on those issues to Tre before the hire?
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If that conversation took place, it most likely went something like this:
BT: "Hello, Rod Brind'Amour. You worked under Bill in his time in Carolina. Are the rumours I have heard about him true?"
RB: "Hi, Brad. Yeah, Bill's a hard-nosed coach who sometimes pushes boundaries, but when players and management made him aware of the problem he backed right off."
BT: "What sort of issues?"
RB: "I'd rather not get into it. We dealt with it internally, and everything has been fine since."
I suspect that this is a likely approximation for how vetting is conducted in the NHL. Hopefully, this changes.