I have a feeling that Bowman stepped down and that will be it for the repercussions hockey wise. Right or wrong, the pound of flesh has been extracted and stern warning for future conduct will be made very very clear.
If other players named in this report were to have been made to step down, it would have already happened I assume. This isn't a good look but I do think there will be policies in place for future action and how to handle these scenarios in the best way possible.
I know there is a whole lot of chest thumping going on in this thread about what each of us would do in specific scenarios but at the end of the day, let's be honest. Some of these people are or were considered lower level employee's in organizations worth hundreds of millions of dollars, with massive operations, budgets, responsibilities and wealthy businessman as owners who are very very powerful politically, economically and more. That's a different animal.
A lot of people I know in the corporate world have fancy titles and barely the authority to order pencils and staples let alone deal or be involved with sex assault scenarios. This notion that some people in this thread would have done this and that is also strange to me as they probably don't have the power to take care of the situation themselves. A lot of corporate manager types don't even have the power to hire and fire anymore, everything does through HR.
It's a sad sad and brutal situation for the victim involved and a bad look for the sports world but let's not get ahead of ourselves with our own belief about what we would really do in that situation if we were some of the lower level players.
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