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Originally Posted by RodimusPryme
If Aliu was good enough to play in the NHL he’s be playing. This is all sour grapes from a malcontent loser. My takeaway for all this is Peters got fired for calling rap music n*** music. He apologized. It was 10 years ago. Is he banned from the NHL for life for one bad decision? There isn’t evidence he used the n word on any other occasion. Seriously, wtf?
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Wow. I am not an Aliu super fan but I know he was a very very good junior player. That the derailing of his career began when he blew the whistle on hazing in junior hockey. He refused to participate when Steve Downie made the rookies strip naked and cram into the team bus bathroom.
I know enough that he saved a lot of other kids the same humiliation and inadvertantly sacrificing his own career.
Here is a very good article about the incident and his potential, with a letter from Akim about the hazing. If you can't get a feel for the guy's character from it or see the potential he had...then I am sorry for those people.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...zing-big-read/