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Originally Posted by transplant99
This was absolutely the best way for the Flames to handle this thing.
They are covered legally from every angle and the ball is in someone else's court. Thats good for the team.
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I'd like to change your wording.
This is the absolutely only way for the Flames to handle this thing.
If they didn't get legal opinions and didn't handle this way, this whole situation could end up in the media and even in court for a long long time.
The NHL probably advised them with their legal council, the Flames had their own legal council and yes Bill Peters probably lawyered up. OF course this thing is going to be handled by Lawyers and negotiated.
the Flames at the end of the day have to protect themselves and their team.
Nailing Peter's to the wall and sending him off in disgrace and fired might sound like the cool thing to do, it might be what media talking heads might want because controversy creates cash.
It might have made some fans happy.
There's just a delusional sense out there that it would just be this easy. Bill you're a fracking racist, I'm going to publicly fire you and destroy you.
It can't be done, it would be equivalent to jamming my hand into molten lava to show that I'm tough and don't care what the ramifications are.
The Flames handled this properly, Tre was good through this whole thing.
He called Peter's actions repulsive.
Its onto the NHL left to put the hammer of disciplinary action now.