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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Tony DeAngelo is a renowned and certified dooshnozzle who still manages to find work. Evander Kane is the crown jewel of locker room cancers (and is black) and still finds work.
I'm not diminishing Aliu's experience with this coach. Racism has no place in any part of society. But Aliu is saying that in ADDITION to the racist incident, Peters went out of his way to make sure Aliu didn't ever play for an NHL team. I doubt Peters has that kind of pull around the league - and even if he did, if Aliu was good enough, he would have found work. He wasn't.
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OK, but you kind of are by simply calling him not good enough and suggesting the claim was that Peters had that sway around the league. That's not the claim. His claim is that Peters went out of his way to hurt his reputation in Chicago and that the people involved in the organization at the time went on to GM (and be the key decision-makers) in multiple other organizations across the league. Hockey is a tight-knight community. When you get a bad reputation with 5 guys and they go on to 5 different teams and all the people involved in those teams, that can spread pretty easily.
Was he not good enough because he never had it? Or because he struggled to overcome the type of abuse he endured?
Do you think Kyle Beach just wasn't good enough?