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Originally Posted by Matty81
I get the need to prepare but why not suspend with pay for the one game pending the meeting. Not without precedent for players at least. I will readily admit that I'm carrying some bias as i have this perception of Bettman as the ultimate corporate bottom line focused sleeze devoid of ethics. But even with that bias being put aside I feel like it's not good enough for him to pass the buck on the response to the interview even for a day. The buck stops with him and the league should have stepped in rather than let Q coach if the Panthers weren't going to.
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I can't speak to Gary's ethics. He has a responsibility being commish to protect the league and the players, and with something like this being more important to the league's reputation than any game going on that night, I don't know why they didn't send the message down to suspend pending investigation. It would have looked better, but perhaps Florida's ownership or management had a discussion with the coach and they were satisfied with the rudimentary explanation? I dunno.