Personally, I am keeping an open mind about who is and who isn't involved, as well as how much they are involved. I sort of look at the possibilities when it comes to Dube like this:
1) He is one of the 5 being charged
2) He was the one that went into the room, and went back out.
3) He only heard about it when it was happening, but didn't go into the room at all and was not a part of it.
4) He didn't know about anything until after the fact.
5) He was working with law enforcement and was the one providing the most information about what happened.
How sure is anyone here about where Dube fits? I have absolutely not idea, and I am going to wait until we know who the 5 are.
When these 5 (and potentially more?) idiots are charged, tried and convicted, I hope they all get really tough sentences as to make examples out of them. Maybe then - MAYBE - some of this 'hockey culture' crap will change. FFS, at least I hope that Hockey Canada gets rid of their hush-money payment war chest and stops protecting the guilty.
If Dube is one of the guilty parties, he is dead to me, should be tarred and feathered and I will have my pitchfork out. Until then, I am just quietly sharpening it for whomever the 5 are (plus 3?? sounds like not enough evidence to be charged).
As the upcoming trial unfolds, I assume that definitive names and actions will come out of this. We will know exactly who did what, and who didn't.
As for the Flames, maybe they knew and maybe they didn't. If I am Dube, I am not telling them exactly what is going on. They can connect the dots, but if they were wrong, that will give them a real bad look as an organization that wasn't supporting a player in crisis, especially if he was troubled with being the informant (just in case that was his role to play). At this point, unless the Flames definitively knew one way or the other, I don't judge them at this time for their statement.
Throw people under the bus only when we are sure about them. Sometimes the damage is too great and permanent to recover from if we are wrong. Retractions don't make for as big of headlines as scandals do.
I just hope that when everything comes out, this story will be taught to every kid on team Canada - and beyond - because the consequences were so severe.
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