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Originally Posted by liamenator
The point is not whether or not Dube is suffering from a mental health crisis. The point is that the Flames did not need to word the initial statement in the way they did. They could have, and should have, simply stated that he was granted a leave for personal reasons -- like every other team did.
If the community here had caught wind that Dube was potentially involved, the organization would have also been aware. The proper legal and ethical course would have been to say as little as possible regarding the reason for his leave.
The organization now appears to have been either wilfully blind about the possibility that this was related to the ongoing sexual assault case, or to have chosen, in spite of this possibility, to do right by the player in citing mental health. In either case, it's a terrible look for the organization.
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Maybe Dube is the only player to cite mental health leave as the reason, and the other players requested “personal leave”. Why wouldn’t Dube just ask for that?
Yeah he’s made a lot of people look bad here in the short term, but what he’s accused of is far more significant. And what Hockey Canada did is far more significant and damming.