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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
In my mind the people accountable for the brushing it under the rug are the coaching staff, management and front office leadership. Rightly this should be the first thing people talk about in situations like when Anaheim hired Joel Quenneville, Edmonton hired Stan Bowman, etc and in my mind it's a perfectly reasonable position to take that those folks should have life altering consequences for their inactions / actions including not being able to work in the NHL again and it is a shame that some of those folks found their way back into the league. Those are the people who ultimately enabled the abuse of Kyle Beach and who swept it under the rug.
Scarlett lettering the players on that team on the other hand doesn't seem right in my mind and goes too far. Many of the players were in their early 20s in 2010 when this happened - the expectation of them to take on their employer (coaches and management) to hold them to account is somewhat unrealistic given the asymmetric power balance between the fully mature grown a$$ adults in management who are actually accountable for managing both the on-ice and off-ice attributes of the team and the players.
Very tenuous at best to be calling out players as being permanently irredeemable characters and completely ridiculous in my mind to expect lifetime bans from future NHL employment based on that association alone.
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While it does not touch Blaster's moral argument about taunting, the law would typically also not hold players accountable for the actions of a coach - whether they knew about it or not - when it is the team and management that is required to provide a safe environment. What we think about individuals making homophobic slurs (which could be part of creating an unsafe environment) and whether this guy was involved is certainly up for debate as someone brought in to mentor younger players. I would be shocked if the Flames did not do their due diligence, as it would be terrible for them to have not done so.