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Originally Posted by dieHARDflameZ
Right because the guys are the real victims here…. You can’t be serious.
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EM may be a victim (although the courts suggest otherwise).
But it is not difficult to look at this situation through the players' eyes and not see a different perspective:
-You work your entire life towards achieving a nearly impossible goal.
-You engage in, what you believe to be, consensual group sex (albeit in a frat boy environment that does not reflect well on any participant).
-You achieve your goal of making the NHL.
-Years later, you are accused of rape/sexual assault and your career disappears overnight based on an unproven accusation.
-You are publicly charged.
-Two years later, the courts determine you are not guilty. Regardless, the court of public opinion is strongly against you (as evidenced in this thread).
-The likelihood of re-entering the NHL, or recouping the lost millions in revenue is microscopic. For the rest of your life, people will associate you with sexual assault, even though the courts suggest otherwise.
Victim is maybe not the right word, but I do have empathy for the players, especially if it was a consensual event (which the court believes).
Basically no one won aside from a few lawyers. Not the players. Not EM. Not the crown.