I have a hard time believing that NHL teams were avoiding him just because of something that he did when he was 14, nor do I think someone is beyond redemption. But what he did was a warning flag and you know that in any meetings he had with potential NHL clubs, he was under the microscope big time because of it - which is absolutely fair IMO. If he aced those meetings by saying all the right things, someone would have picked him earlier. The rumours that some NHL clubs were avoiding him completely, suggests to me that they had good reasons to heed those warning flags.
Just speculating of course.
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